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Unread 10-13-2005, 07:22 PM   #53
pauldenton
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Originally Posted by Tempus
The UK was involved in getting the US to "help out" in Vietnam. They were just smart enough to keep their troops out of it.
hmm - do enlarge on this please.... as afaik UK involvement in Vietnam is limited to handing control back to the French in 1945, and persuading eisenhower not to use massive conventional bombing or tactical nukes to support the french besieged in Dien Bien Phu, then being part of the geneva accords that divided vietnam in 1954 following the french decision to withdraw....
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