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  Give a gift Books A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. By  April 13, 2026 In the final collapse of South Vietnam, evacuation flights became scenes of panic, desperation, and abandonment. Photograph from Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty Save this story O n March 8, 1965, at 9   a.m ., United States marines landed on a beach ten miles north of the city of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Americans had been providing direct military support in South Vietnam since 1954, the year the country was split in two, and the war, beginning with France’s fight to preserve its colony, had been going on since 1946. But the marines were the first American combat troops to arrive. The Johnson Administration downplayed the significance of the landing. It explained that the marines were being deployed to secure an airbase used for Operati...