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Printed and bound in the United States of America. First printing 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 978-1-4222-3889-9 Series ISBN: 978-1-4222-3887-5 ebook ISBN: 978-1-4222-7899-4 ebook series ISBN: 978-1-4222-7897-0 Produced by Regency House Publishing Limited The Manor House

PAGE 2: Da Nang, Vietnam. A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing. PAGE 3: President Lyndon B. Johnson. National Security meeting on Vietnam in the Cabinet Room of the White House. RIGHT: The radar operator aboard a U.S. Navy Martin SP-5B Marlin from Patrol Squadron 40 (VP-40) helps guide his aircraft towards an unidentified surface contact off the coast of Vietnam as part of Operation Market Time, June 1965. PAGE 6 : Arrival of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile) in Vietnam consisting of 15,800 men and 424 helicopters and aircraft.

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