Saturday, March 22, 2025

Today in
Vietnam War History

1965 - The U.S. State Department acknowledged that the U.S. had supplied the South Vietnamese with a "non-lethal gas" for use "in tactical situations in which the Viet Cong intermingle with or take refuge among non-combatants, rather than use artillery or aerial bombardment."

1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the appointment of General William Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff and that General Creighton Abrams would replace him as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam.

1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson scaled down a troop request from General William Westmoreland and authorized 13,500 reinforcements.


Random Vietnam War Quote

I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the communists. - John F. Kennedy, September 2, 1963

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