the cold war conspiracy was that if the vietnamese communist won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other.
country under their own control. the cold war conspiracy was that if the vietnamese communist won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are
southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other.
southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions. we ve got advisers that are
won the war in vietnam, all of southeast asia would fall. the dominos would fall, one after another. there is no doubt the fall of south vietnam would have serious repercussions on other countries of southeast asia. this is fundamentally the reason why we re in south vietnam. after all, eastern europe has fallen to communism. china has fallen to communism. we can t lose southeast asia. so we have to stabilize south vietnam. on january 2nd, 1963, south vietnamese troops surprise a vietcong battalion at a village called ap bac. five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed. 63 south vietnamese die, half of them shooting at each other. we ve got u.s. military advisers flying combat missions.