They made it by hands from old tires and rubber that was available especially because Vietnam was known as a French colony for rubber production Durable Rubber sandals is very durable to wear, they can be used to walk everyday for a few years without being damaged or needing repairing...
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment driver on a journey to take position at a Michelin rubber plantation in 1969, wears sunglasses to protect his eyes against the strong sun The 11th frequently used the ACAV Armored Cav Assault Vehicle as favored by Col George S Patton, the regimental commander between 1968 - 1969...
27102007 0183 32 Would you fight a foreign war in Vietnam, which is a country only a little bigger than the state of New York - which is extremely small compared to California or Texas so multinational companies in the US can profit from Vietnam s offshore oil or titanium mining Titanium at the time was a rare metal used in nuclear weapons and ....
This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1969, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their alli...
The USA had invented and improved synthetic rubbers by the time they got involved in earnest in Vietnam, and there s really no reason why they would have needed the rubber tre The claim that France needed rubber, which in a roundabout way caused the US intervention in Vietnbam could be explored, but even then, the amount of rubber exported wasn t enough to lead to the conflict...
Free world dominion over the region would provide markets for Japan, rebuilding with American help after the Pacific War US involvement in Vietnam reassured the British, who linked their postwar recovery to the revival of the rubber and tin industries in their colony of Malaya, one of Vietnam s neighbors And with US aid, the French could concentrate on economic recovery at home, and ....
The basis of the domino theory came from the Korean War because the United States learned that communism was becoming more of a threat in other countries outside of Europe...
The unspoken parallels between Iraq and Vietnam and the antiwar movements then and now are illustrated by The Camden 28, a poignant documentary recalling the all-but-forgotten trial of 28 Vietnam War opponents, mostly members of the Catholic Left....
During the war, VVAW led tens of thousands of Vietnam vets in demonstrations against that war No comparable group of Vietnam vets ever rose to challenge VVAW or our goals When VVAW brought 1500 Vietnam vets to protest Nixon s renomination, the Republican Party could only come up with 6 vets to support the war -- and some of these did not support Nixon Vietnam vets knew firsthand about the ,...