![]() Warning: Several of these photographs are graphic in nature. Ma376 A group of South Vietnamese army soldiers and an American soldier with two captured Vietcong suspects, in Plaines des Joncs, South Vietnam. ![]() involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as the growing protest movement, between the years 19. This photo essay, part one of a three-part series, looks at the earlier stages of U.S. Based on widely varying estimates, between 1.5 and 3.6 million people were killed in the war. Each side suffered and inflicted huge losses, with the civilian populace suffering horribly. troops were in the country, fighting alongside South Vietnamese soldiers as they faced both a conventional army and a guerrilla force in unforgiving terrain. had been providing aid and advisors to the South since the 1950s, slowly escalating operations to include bombing runs and ground troops. The communist government of North Vietnam (backed by the Soviet Union and China) was locked in a battle with South Vietnam (supported by the United States) in a Cold War proxy fight. They were the first American combat troops on the ground in a conflict that had been building for decades. ![]() Fifty years ago, in March 1965, 3,500 U.S. ![]()
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