In 1964, the United States had a presence in South Vietnam ... the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon B. Johnson in a White House ceremony on Dec. 5, 1964. He was the first of 268 Medal of ...

File Photo courtesy Imperial War Museum In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment ... In 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to ...