16h 36min, feb 8, 1971 y - Laos invasion
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Lam Son 719 South Vietnam Invades Laos, 1971. The Vietnam War's best historian examines the costly attack on an enemy sanctuary. On February 8, 1971, less than two years after U.S. President Richard Nixon announced his intention to “Vietnamize” the war, troops f (ARVN) crossed the border into Laos.
Nixon backs the ARVN
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16h 36min, feb 8, 1971 y
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~ 54 years ago