1945 and early intervention - a travel guide to America in Vietnam Part 1

2025 was a year of big anniversaries in Vietnam. The 50th anniversary of the end of the American War - aka. The Vietnam War in April 2025, put Vietnam back in international news. In Part I of this Rusty Compass series, a travel guide to America in Vietnam, we take a look at an unlikely early United States engagement in Vietnam, in the remote jungles of north in the final months of World War II in 1945.