On this date in 1969 the initial withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam began as ordered by President Nixon a few weeks earlier. This first phase involved 25,000 troops from the approximately 540,000 currently in that country. By the fall of 1971 troop levels were down to about 190,000. The last American forces left by early 1973. South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnam communists in April 1975, ending a thirty year civil war.
For how America became engaged in the conflict read Dereliction of Duty.
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