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The Vietnam War

Soldiers Adapt

A Marine explains that soldiers have to adapt to the atrocities of war.

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Two Vietnam War soldiers in the trenches.
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1:28:18
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
A soldier holds a cigarette in his mouth as he balances his gun on his shoulder.
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1:57:25
US soldiers discover Vietnam is unlike their fathers’ war, as the antiwar movement grows.
Two politicians rest their heads on their fist and palm.
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1:57:56
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
An American soldier addresses a group of South Vietnamese soldiers who are all sitting down on the ground with their guns pointing up.
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1:26:27
As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
Two Vietnam War soldiers crouch as they run away from smoke at a distance.
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1:25:21
After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.
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