In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

In the early days of the US military involvement in Vietnam, the most powerful military in the world was confident it would ...

RENEW has worked for over 20 years to remove unexploded ordnance, or UXO—bombs, artillery shells, mortar rounds, grenades—from Quang Tri province, the most heavily bombed part of South Vietnam (indeed ...

At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...

The Vietnam War was fought during a time when America was undergoing pivotal change. The use of the draft proved an extremely controversial policy, especially as the war persisted for almost two ...

Prologue (November 1968) -- Vietnam : military advisor Mike Horan (May 1962-June 1963) -- America : president and commander in Chief John F. Kennedy (November 1963) -- America : president and ...

For many Vietnamese Americans, this week's ceremonies marking 50 years since the fall of Saigon recall both the loss of their homeland and their struggles to make a new life in America. Erin Phuong ...

He later reflected on the incident: (QUOTE) “it takes more than that to stop a skimmer at 60 knots.” From the beginning, ...

Orange County is suing, alleging that most of the money that was supposed to be allocated to a Vietnam War memorial was ...