Interesting. But not to be a nose-picker, but FDR sent the first advisors to Vietnam.
On active duty at the time and privy to information that the first MAAG skeleton force was sent there about 1956.
My CIC was president at the time and FDR had nothing to do with the assignments as he was, fortunately, already dead.
The place was called French Indochina at the time and the forces they (OSS) were advising were being led against the Japanese (and the French) by a former immigrant New York kitchen helper named Ho Chi Minh.
“FDR sent the first advisors to Vietnam.”
You mean French-Indo China.