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John Sibley Butler. The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam.
By 1969, at  the height of the war, the United States had about 543,000 troops  in Vietnam. Many of them were teenagers. The average age of  Americans fighting in Vietnam was 19.    END OF THE WAR Although Nixon increased the bombing of North  Vietnam, he began withdrawing U.S. troops.or the US, the Vietnam War was an effort to prevent the expansion of communist influence in Southeast Asia, pitting South Vietnam (supported by the US) against the armies and â¦ guerrilla forces of North Vietnam (supported mainly by the Soviet Union).