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Created by ashbug on Apr 19, 2011

Last updated: 04/19/11 at 12:43 PM

• Military
  Aug 17, 1965

  U.S. Marines begin Operation Starlite against Viet Cong in the Van Tuong peninsula, the largest American military operation of the war to date.
  http://www.vietnamgear.com/war1965.aspx

• Troops
  May 3, 1965

  The first U.S. Army combat troops, 3500 men of the 173rd American Brigade, arrive in Vietnam.
  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html

• Napalm
  Mar 9, 1965

  President Johnson authorizes the use of Napalm, petroleum based anti-personnel bomb that showers hundreds of explosive pellets upon impact.
  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html

• Operation Rolling Thunder
  Feb 24, 1965

  Operation Rolling Thunder was a demonstration of America's near total air supremacy during the Vietnam War. It was started in effort to demoralize the North Vietnamese people and to undermine the capacity of the government in North Vietnam to govern.
  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html

• Government
  Jan 27, 1965

  General Khanh siezes full control of South Vietnam's government.
  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html