Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Today in
Vietnam War History

1962 - The first mission under Operation Farm Gate were flown. T-28 fighter-bombers were used to support a South Vietnamese outpost under attack from the Viet Cong.

1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that 70,000 U.S. troops would leave South Vietnam over the next three months.


Random Vietnam War Quote

"Now we have a problem in trying to make our power credible, and Vietnam looks like the place." - President John Kennedy in a June 1961 interview with the New York Times reporter James Reston.

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