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1 July 1966 - 31 May 1967 | |||||||||
6 Jul 66 |
Hanoi Radio reports that captured American pilots have
been paraded though the streets of Hanoi through jeering crowds.
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11 Jul 66 |
The U.S. intensifies bombing raids against portions of
the Ho Chi Minh trail winding through Laos.
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15 Jul 66 |
Operation Hastings is launched by U.S. Marines and South
Vietnamese troops against 10,000 NVA in Quang Tri Province. This is the
largest combined military operation to date in the war.
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15 Jul 66
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G.I. Pay Hike Signed By L.B.J. | ||||||||
15 Jul 66
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Sinatra, 50, Engaged to Mia Farrow, 21 | ||||||||
15 Jul 66
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U.S. Jets Down M.I.G. Over North | ||||||||
28 Jul 66
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Seeks No Wider War - U.S. Rejects Ky Call to Invade | ||||||||
30 Jul 66 |
For the first time, the U.S. bombs NVA troops in the Demilitarized
Zone, the buffer area separating North and South Vietnam.
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9 Aug 66 |
U.S. jets attack two South Vietnamese villages by mistake,
killing 63 civilians and wounding over 100.
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30 Aug 66 |
Hanoi announces China will provide economic and technical
assistance.
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1 Sep 66 |
While visiting Cambodia, French President Charles de Gaulle
calls for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.
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12 Sep 66 |
500 U.S. jets attack NVA supply lines and coastal targets
in the heaviest air raid of the war to date.
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14 Sep-24 Nov 66 |
During Operation Attleboro, 20,000 U.S. and ARVN soldiers
conduct a successful search-and-destroy mission 50 miles north of Saigon
near the Cambodian border. 155 Americans are killed and 494 wounded while
1,106 VC/NVA are killed.
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15 Sep 66
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Cry From Space: Ride It, Cowboy | ||||||||
15 Sep 66
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Pilot Tells of Prison Camp Ordeal | ||||||||
15 Sep 66
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Seabee Wins Posthumous Medal of Honor | ||||||||
23 Sep 66 |
The U.S. reveals jungles near the Demilitarized Zone are
being defoliated by sprayed chemicals.
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24 Sep 66
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Would Halt Raids, U.N. Told - U.S. Bids For Peace | ||||||||
24 Sep 66
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U.S. to Buy 280 Extra Warplanes | ||||||||
2-24 Oct 66 |
The U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division conducts Operation Irving
to clear NVA from mountainous areas near Qui Nhon.
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3 Oct 66 |
The Soviet Union announces it will provide military and
economic assistance to North Vietnam.
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25 Oct 66 |
President Johnson conducts a conference in Manila with
America's Vietnam Allies; Australia, Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand,
South Korea and South Vietnam. The Allies pledge to withdraw from Vietnam
within six months if North Vietnam will withdraw completely from the South.
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26 Oct 66 |
President Johnson visits Cam Ranh Bay.
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27 Oct 66
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Allies Offer Hanoi 6-Point Peace Plan | ||||||||
27 Oct 66
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Special Reserve to Be on Call Till Mid-'67 | ||||||||
28 Oct 66
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L.B.J. Flies to Viet, Dines With Troops | ||||||||
28 Oct 66
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N.A.T.O. Votes to Quit Paris | ||||||||
7 Nov 66 |
Defense Secretary McNamara is confronted by student protesters
during a visit to Harvard University.
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12 Nov 66 |
The New York Times reports that 40 percent of U.S. economic
aid sent to Saigon is stolen or winds up on the black market.
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8-9 Dec 66 |
North Vietnam rejects a proposal by President Johnson
for discussions concerning treatment of POWs and a possible exchange.
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26 Dec 66 |
Under pressurefrom journalists over mounting civilian
causalities in North Vietnam, the U.S. Defense Department now admits civilians
may have been bombed accidentally.
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27 Dec 66 |
The U.S. mounts a large-scale air assault against suspected
Viet Cong positions in the Mekong Delta using Napalm and hundreds of tons
of bombs.
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31 Dec 66 |
U.S. troop levels reach 389,000 with 5,008 combat deaths
and 30,093 wounded. American Allies fighting in Vietnam include 45,000
soldiers from South Korea and 7000 Australians. An estimated 89,000 soldiers
from North Vietnam infiltrated the South via the Ho Chi Minh trail in
1966.
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2 Jan 67 |
Operation Bolo occurs as 28 U.S. Air Force F-4 Phantom
jets lure North Vietnamese MiG-21 interceptors into a dogfight over Hanoi
and shoot down seven of them. This leaves only nine MiG-21s operational
for the North Vietnamese. American pilots, however, are prohibited by
Washington from attacking MiG air bases in North Vietnam.
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5 Jan 67
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12-14 Minute Dogfight - Ace Describes Epic M.I.G. Battle | ||||||||
5 Jan 67
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U.S. Nabs 70 in Haiti Plot | ||||||||
5 Jan 67
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Royal Divorce Shakes British Society | ||||||||
5 Jan 67
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Cancer-Ridden Ruby Dies of Blood Clot | ||||||||
8-26 Jan 67 |
Operation Cedar Falls involves 16,000 American and 14,000
South Vietnamese soldiers clearing out Viet Cong from the 'Iron Triangle'
area 25 miles northwest of Saigon. The Viet Cong avoided the fight and
retreated into the jungle, leaving Allied troops to uncover and destroy
an extensive network of tunnels. After the American and South Vietnamese
troops leave the area, Viet Cong return and rebuild their sanctuary. This
pattern is repeated throughout the war as Americans utilize 'in-and-out'
tactics in which troops arrive by helicopters, secure an area, then depart
by helicopters.
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10 Jan 67 |
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant expresses doubts that Vietnam
is essential to the security of the West.
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10 Jan 67 |
In his State of the Union address before Congress, President
Johnson declares "We will stand firm in Vietnam."
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23 Jan 67 |
Antiwar Senator J. William Fulbright publishes a book
critical of American Vietnam policy. "The Arrogance of Power"
advocates direct peace talks between the South Vietnamese government and
the Viet Cong.
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2 Feb 67 |
President Johnson states there are no "serious indications
that the other side is ready to stop the war."
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8-10 Feb 67 |
American religious groups stage a nationwide "Fast for
Peace."
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8-12 Feb 67 |
A truce occurs during Tet, the lunar New Year, a traditional
Vietnamese holiday
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12 Feb 67
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North Viet Buildup - Supplies Spotted Flowing South From Hanoi | ||||||||
12 Feb 67
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Kosygin Hails Struggle Against 'Dictator Mao' | ||||||||
13 Feb 67 |
Following the failure of diplomatic peace efforts, President
Johnson announces the U.S. will resume full-scale bombing of North Vietnam.
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22 Feb 67 |
22 U.S. and four South Vietnamese battalions conduct the
war's largest operation, Junction City, to destroy the NVA's Central Office
headquarters in South Vietnam. The offensive includes a parachute assault
by the 173d Airborne Brigade. It lasts until 14 May 67.
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8 Mar 67 |
Congress authorizes $4.5 billion for the war.
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19-21 Mar 67 |
President Johnson meets in Guam with South Vietnam's Prime
Minister Ky and pressures Ky to hold national elections.
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23 Mar 67
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U.S. Peace Bid Rejected - L.B.J., Ho Exchange Notes on Viet War | ||||||||
23 Mar 67
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$280 Mil. Air Shield For N.A.T.O. | ||||||||
23 Mar 67
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Point-Blank Artillery Kills 423 Reds | ||||||||
23 Mar 67
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B-52's Flee Gale of Guam | ||||||||
3 Apr 67
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Outnumbered G.I.’S Cut Down 581 VC | ||||||||
6 Apr 67 |
2,500 Viet Cong and NVA attack Quang Tri City.
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14 Apr 67 |
Richard M. Nixon visits Saigon and states that anti-war
protests back in the U.S. are "prolonging the war."
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15 Apr 67 |
Anti-war demonstrations occur in New York and San Francisco
involving nearly 200,000. Rev. Martin Luther King declares that the war
is undermining President Johnson's Great Society social reform programs,
"...the pursuit of this widened war has narrowed the promised dimensions
of the domestic welfare programs, making the poor white and Negro bear
the heaviest burdens both at the front and at home."
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20 Apr 67 |
U.S. bombers target Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam for
the first time.
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22 Apr 67
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Raid at Haiphong - S.E.A.T.O. Council Backs Bombing | ||||||||
24 Apr 67 |
General Westmoreland condemns anti-war demonstrators saying
they give the North Vietnamese soldier "hope that he can win politically
that which he cannot accomplish militarily." Privately, he has already
warned President Johnson "the war could go on indefinitely."
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24 Apr-11 May 67 |
Hill fights rage at Khe Sanh between U.S. 3rd Marines
and the North Vietnamese Army resulting in 940 NVA killed. American losses
are 155 killed and 425 wounded. The isolated air base is located in mountainous
terrain less than 10 miles from North Vietnam near the border of Laos.
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30Apr 67
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Westy Charts Path to Victory in Viet | ||||||||
30Apr 67
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Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) Spurns Induction | ||||||||
1 May 67 |
Ellsworth Bunker is appointed U.S ambassador to South
Vietnam.
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2 May 67 |
British antiwar activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell
organizes a mock war crimes tribunal in Stockholm to condemn the USA.
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4 May 67
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N. Viet Hopes Die on Hill 881 | ||||||||
4 May 67
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Plan N.A.T.O. Cut - U.S. to Pull Out 35,000 Troops | ||||||||
4 May 67
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$1.6 Mil. Heist From Jet Fail | ||||||||
4 May 67
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Senate Republicans Back L.B.J. on Viet | ||||||||
9 May 67 |
Robert W. Komer, a former CIA analyst, is appointed by
President Johnson as deputy commander of MACV to form a new agency called
Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) to pacify
the population of South Vietnam.
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13 May 67 |
A New York City fire captain leads a 70,000-person march
in support of the war.
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13 May 67
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Viet Cong Shell 2 U.S. Airfields | ||||||||
13 May 67
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Westy's Duties Expanded | ||||||||
13 May 67
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Couple Sees Son Wounded on TV Film | ||||||||
13 May 67
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L.B.J. Wins on Draft | ||||||||
14 May 67 |
Operation Junction City which commenced 22 Feb 67 ends
with 2,728 Viet Cong killed and 34 captured. American losses are 282 killed
and 1,576 wounded. NVA were forced to relocate their Central Office headquarters
inside Cambodia to avoid capture.
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18-26 May 67 |
U.S. and South Vietnamese troops enter the Demilitarized
Zone for the first time and engage in a series of fire fights with NVA.
Both sides suffer heavy losses.
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21 May 67
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Allies Sweep DMZ | ||||||||
21 May 67
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U.N. Withdraws From Gaza Strip | ||||||||
22 May 67 |
President Johnson publicly urges North Vietnam to accept
a peace compromise.
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