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| Aid to Vietnam Kennedy, John Fitzgerald |  |
| May 5,000 troops are present in Sth Vietnam |
| Assassination Diem, Ngo Dinh |  |
| Announces on the radio that he owes his life to "divine protection" |
| Avoids losing his life when the Presidential Palace is bombed |
| Chairman JCS Taylor, Maxwell | |
| Appointed Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff |
| Chopper Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 12th Jan Saigon USA helicopters ferry 1,000 South Vietnam ese soldiers to sweep an NFL stroghold |
| Diplomacy Kennedy, Robert Francis | |
| Saigon Visits Siagon & states that America is going to win the War |
| Farm Gate Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| 13th Jan Farm Gate aircraft fly their 1st combat mission |
| Mobilization Mansfield, Mike | |
| Sent to Vietnam by Kennedy, reports the USA has spent $2 billion in 7 yrs |
| Operation Ranchand Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Forests are sprayed with "Agent Orange," an herbicide containing deadly dioxin |
| The goal is to clear vegetation alongside highways to prevent Vietcong concealment |
| 2nd Feb Bombing trails used by the Viet Cong, 6 million acres treated with herbicides by 1971 |
| Plot Cu, Nguyen Van | |
| Helps drop a bomb on Diem in his Presidential Palace, Diem survives |
| Plot Diem, Ngo Dinh | |
| Announces on the radio that he owes his life to "divine protection" |
| Avoids losing his life when the Presidential Palace is bombed |
| Secretary Army Vance, Cyrus | |
| Appointed Secretary of the Army |
| Sunrise Diem, Ngo Dinh | |
| Mar Diem ordersbombing raids against suspected Viet Cong-controlled hamlets |
| 22nd Mar Binh Duong 50 hamlets are infiltrated & taken over by Viet Cong who kill village leaders |
| 22nd Mar Binh Duong An operation to corral peasants into armed stockades & seal them off from the Vietcong |
| Sunrise Thao, Pham Ngoc | |
| Oversees the programm to create peasant built stockades |
| Thao believes this will win sympathy for the Vietcong |
