Commander-in-Chief Truman orders eight C-47 transport aircraft loaded with military weapons sent to the French enclave of Indochina, to aid the Republic of France in its war against the insurgent, communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Postscripts:
- CONgress would not authorize these expenditures for another month.
- Over the course of the next four years the United states would send nearly 3,000,000,000 “dollars” to aid the losing French effort.
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Subsequent Events:
7/26/1950
References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 192.
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