![]() ![]() 1967 Operation Cedar Falls Begins January 8, 1967.Bruce Crandall's UH-1D Iroquois helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search-and-destroy mission in Vietnam. The Battle of Ia Drang was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam, as part of the Pleiku Campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War, at the eastern foot of the Chu Pong Massif in the central highlands of Vietnam. Battle of Ia Drang Valley Begins November 14, 1965.US troops together with South Vietnamese forces engage in combat operations with North Vietnamese forces in the Pleku Province in the Central Highlands. 1965 Operation Silver Bayonet Begins October 23, 1965.actions in Vietnam began slowly with the deployment of advisors in the early 1950s and expanded incrementally to include the deployment of combat forces in July 1965. ![]() ![]() Advisors deployed to Vietnam 1950 - 1965. ![]()
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