In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, with the authority given to him by Congress in the earlier Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to increase the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam, they were the first U.S. troops to arrive in Vietnam
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