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The Vietnam War
Resolve (January 1966-June 1967)
Season 1
Episode 4
Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon struggles to “pacify the countryside.” As an antiwar movement builds back home, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines discover that the war they are being asked to fight in Vietnam is nothing like their fathers’ war.
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1:28:17
President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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1:57:55
With South Vietnam near collapse, LBJ bombs the North and sends US troops to the South.
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1:26:27
As a communist insurgency gains strength, JFK wrestles with US involvement in Vietnam.
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1:25:20
After a century of French occupation, Vietnam emerges independent but divided.