May 11
... 1962 – Secretary of Defense McNamara makes the first of many trips to Vietnam and meets with Diem. After 48 hours in the country he concludes, ‘every quantitative measurement…shows that we are winning the war.’ 1965 – U.S. destroyers deliver first shore bombardment of Vietnam War. 1965 – General Wes ...
... 1962 – Secretary of Defense McNamara makes the first of many trips to Vietnam and meets with Diem. After 48 hours in the country he concludes, ‘every quantitative measurement…shows that we are winning the war.’ 1965 – U.S. destroyers deliver first shore bombardment of Vietnam War. 1965 – General Wes ...
Empire of Vietnam
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The Empire of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Chinese character: 越南帝國; Japanese: ベトナム帝国) was a puppet short-lived client state of Imperial Japan governing the whole of Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.