The Untold Story Of America's Defeat In Vietnam

May, 1961: President Kennedy authorises the first American Military advisers to aid South Vietnam against the forces of North Vietnam. When the United States of America went to War in Vietnam, it was a nation riding high. Confident and ambitious, the world's greatest superpower expected this would...

42 min - War & Military - Our History

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