A ceremony was held in the central city of Da Nang on Thursday to hand over to the U.S. side remains believed to be of U.S. servicemen missing in action (MIAs) during the war in Vietnam.
In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang. This represented a ... and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant ...
President Johnson now had effective permission to pursue full war in Vietnam. 8 March 1965, 3500 US marines landed at Da Nang. By 1968, the number of troops was 536,000.