Video: 'Operation Power Flite - Video Learning - WizScience.com'
(Friday, January 18, 1957, 10:19 a.m. PST; during Operation Power Flite and the Cold War) — Three U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses completed a non-stop around-the-world flight today in 45 hours and 19 minutes (using in-flight refueling to stay aloft) at March Air Force Base in California, demonstrating that the United States could drop a hydrogen bomb anywhere on earth.
Video: 'President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1967 State of the Union Address, 1/10/67. MP588.'
(Tuesday, January 10, 1967, 9:33 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, tonight asked Congress to impose “a surcharge of 6 percent on both corporate and individual income taxes” to help pay for his “Great Society” anti-poverty programs as well as the war in Vietnam. Continue reading Johnson requests tax surcharge for Vietnam War, poverty programs 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 10 1967)
Video: '1983-Vietnam - A Television History - P.5 America Takes Charge (1965-1967)' (Operation Cedar Falls at 20:34-24:59)
(Sunday, January 8, 1967; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Operation Cedar Falls began today as 30,000 American troops, the largest number of U.S. forces committed to battle in the Vietnam War up to that time, began to drive the Viet Cong out of the “Iron Triangle” region in South Vietnam’s Binh Duong Province. Continue reading Americans launch Operation Cedar Falls to eradicate Vietnam’s ‘Iron Triangle’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1967)
Video: 'Scenes From Deckhouse Five: Marines & USS Iwo Jima Vietnam War'
(Friday, January 6, 1967; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops today launched Operation Deckhouse Five, an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
The 10-day operation reportedly claimed the lives of 21 Viet Cong fighters along with seven Americans.
Video: 'PRESIDENTS LBJ Part 2' (Jan. 5, 1967, at 1:08:30)
(Thursday, January 5, 1967; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — With the Vietnam War dragging on with no end in sight, First Lady Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson, wife of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, wrote today in her diary, “A miasma of trouble hangs over everything.” Continue reading ‘A miasma of trouble hangs over everything,’ writes Lady Bird Johnson 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 5 1967)
Video: 'The Other Side of Suez (BBC Documentary)' (Jan. 5, 1957 at 55:24)
(Saturday, January 5, 1957, 12:30 p.m. EST; during the Cold War) — President Dwight Eisenhower today asked a solemn assembly of Congress to authorize him to use the armed forces of the United States against any Communist or Communist-dominated aggressor in the Middle East area in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. Continue reading President Eisenhower asks Congress for right to combat a Red attack in Mideast 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 5 1957)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 1' (First Indochina War begins at 34:08)
(Thursday, December 19, 1946, 8:03 p.m. ICT; during the Cold War) — The First Indochina War, primarily between between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents, broke out tonight in French Indochina when Viet Minh soldiers under Ho Chi Minh plunged Hanoi into darkness and began attacking French military positions and French homes in the Battle of Hanoi. Continue reading First Indochina War breaks out 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 19 1946)
'Vietnam: A Television History - America's Enemy [5/11]' (Dec. 13-14, 1966, at 33:29)
(Tuesday, December 13, 1966; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Operation Marigold, a secret attempt to reach a compromise solution to the Vietnam War, began to collapse today when U.S. President Lyndon Johnson resumed air strikes on Hanoi that continued into the next day. Continue reading Vietnam War escalates with first U.S. air strikes near Hanoi and Haiphong 50 years ago #OTD this hour (Dec 13 1966)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 1' (Nov. 23 1946, at 32:27)
(Saturday, November 23, 1946, 9:45 a.m. ICT; during the Haiphong incident) — The French cruiser Suffren bombarded the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong today, killing 6,000 Vietnamese people in the first armed clash in a series of outbreaks that would lead to the Battle of Hanoi on Dec. 19, 1946, and with it the official outbreak of the First Indochina War.
Video: 'The Other Side of Suez (BBC Documentary)' (Nov. 5, 1956, at 39:41)
(Monday, November 5, 1956; during the Suez Crisis) — Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt today during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. Continue reading British-French commandos land in Egypt 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 5 1956)
