TWE Remembers: The First U.S. Combat Troops Arrive in Vietnam
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Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first American combat troops in Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrived in Da Nang to prote…
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