Posted on Aug 5, 2015
50 years ago today, August 05, in sunny Vietnam-land - Where were you?
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New is slow as this is the rainy season in Vietnam
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Former General and Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, now an adviser to President Johnson, told the President:
"By the end of 1965, the North Vietnamese offensive will be bloodied and defeated without having achieved major gains."
North Vietnam would be forced to change its strategy.
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Viet Cong destroyed 40 percent of the facility and two million gallons of fuel in storage tanks near Da Nang.
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Former General and Ambassador Maxwell Taylor, now an adviser to President Johnson, told the President:
"By the end of 1965, the North Vietnamese offensive will be bloodied and defeated without having achieved major gains."
North Vietnam would be forced to change its strategy.
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Viet Cong destroyed 40 percent of the facility and two million gallons of fuel in storage tanks near Da Nang.
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I was not around at that time unfortunately, but I appreciate the history lesson SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S..
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