U.S. Troops in Vietnam
n May 1950, President Harry S. Truman agreed to provide financial aid and military equipment to French forces fighting a communist-led movement attempting to end France’s control over Vietnam. In August, he sent in 35 men to serve as advisers to the French—the first members of the U.S. military in Vietnam. In the following years Truman and successor Dwight D. Eisenhower added more advisers, and by the end of 1959 about 760 U.S. military
