United States Marine Corps in Vietnam

Marines in Vietnam detail the USMC’s 10-year, 86,000-strong engagement, battles, gear, and strategy, highlighting costs, courage, and the Corps’ role in an unwinnable war.

With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) brigade of approximately 3,000 men on March 8, 1965. So began a massive and costly 10-year com...