Vietnam War legacy lives on in unexploded bombs
A demining team carefully removed a pile of rusty explosives – each one still able to kill or maim – from a quiet ploughed field where fierce fighting once raged in the Vietnam War. Shortly after the...
View ArticleAccording To U.S. Big Data, We Won The Vietnam War
When the last helicopter rose above the American embassy in Saigon on April 29, 1975, the US had been winning the Vietnam War for over a decade. The data said so. The strategy had been driven by a...
View ArticleWar as art through camera lens
Television made Vietnam “the living-room war”: the first military conflict seen in people’s homes. That decade-long stream of images on the nightly news became its own environment, a visual texture,...
View ArticleDigging freedom’s well – Aviation veteran’s career spans nearly four decades,...
Like so many young men who have tried their hand at a higher education, Al Nichols made the decision to leave his studies at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., because of a youthful inclination...
View ArticleMemory of Vietnam War fading fast in Hanoi
When the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military met with his Vietnamese counterpart here Thursday, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey’s motorcade passed a used-car lot’s worth of captured American military...
View ArticleThe USO, the American Soldiers and Robin Williams: Saying Goodbye to a Man...
The recent passing of thespian Robin Williams saddened even the military world. Gooooood Morning, Vietnam! That was the famous line of Robin Williams when he played the enthusiastic radio DJ in the...
View ArticleThe Vietnam War might seem like ancient history, but thousands still risk...
BANGKOK, Thailand — For 24-year-old Pa Kou Vang, home is a shared room in the heaving alleys of Bangkok where she shields herself with silence so locals don’t hear her accent and call the police....
View ArticleRefugees from Vietnam War Still Fearful of Government
During the Vietnam War, many Southern Vietnamese citizens sided with the United States in their fight against the Vietcong. Some of these citizens are still at risk of punishment for their actions....
View ArticleUnion Soldier to Receive Medal of Honor 150 Years After His Death
Pres. Obama will do the honor of presenting a Union Army officer the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, a century and a half after his valiant passing at the Battle of...
View ArticleDecorated Marine Unit Dubbed “Walking Dead” Deactivated
The decorated Marine Corps battalion nicknamed “Walking Dead” was deactivated last August 29, Friday in a ceremony at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The move comes in lieu with the...
View ArticleSgt. Derek Nelson served 3 1/2 years in Vietnam from 68-71
Derek Nelson of North Port, Fla. served 3 1/2 years in Vietnam. He first went there in 1967 as an 18-year-old member of the 9th Infantry Division located in the Macon Delta. During his second tour in...
View ArticleOklahoma Vietnam Veteran To Receive Medal Of Honor
A Vietnam veteran with Oklahoma roots will receive the Medal of Honor later this month. Bennie Gene Adkins grew up in Waurika, has lots of family in Weleetka, and a brother in Broken Arrow. Command...
View ArticleCompelled into service
This is an article on a veteran that received valuable medical training in the Navy, which led to her becoming a nurse in the civilian sector: Air Force veteran describes service during the Vietnam War...
View ArticleCould Airpower Have Won the Vietnam War?
While the United States Air Force may have viewed the Rolling Thunder campaign as sub-optimal, given its desire to attack a much wider range of targets, the commanders at the time viewed it as an...
View Article‘All I can do is hunt and search:’ Gardendale woman whose brother went MIA...
Jane Carlton Price refuses to stop searching for her brother Major James E. Carlton Jr, USMC, who went missing in action during the Vietnam War. The city of Gardendale, along with the rest of the...
View ArticleLt. Rich Entlich fought in Vietnam in black pajamas and flip-flops
Don Moores war tales report: After graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1963, Lt. Rich Entlich found himself in Vietnam working for MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam)...
View Article500-kg bomb exposed on riverbank in northern Vietnam
A 500-kg bomb has emerged from the bank of a river in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Tri after continuous rains in the area, local authorities reported Wednesday. While patrolling along the...
View ArticleOutbound soldiers’ messages offer glimpses of the Vietnam war
Despite a decade of periodic searches, including inquiries by a Philadelphia detective, no one has located Little Ty. He was a soldier sent from Philadelphia to Vietnam in 1967, with the war in full...
View ArticleReckoning With the Vietnam War’s Last Days
Vital, illuminating, and terrifying, Rory Kennedy’s Last Days in Vietnam probes with clarity and thoroughness one moment of recent American history that has too long gone unreckoned with. Here, in...
View ArticleEMBERS OF WAR – Review by Mark Barnes
In June 1919 when the victorious powers met at Versailles to flay the defeated Central Powers other stuff was going on that would have ramifications for decades to come. Many nationalists seeking light...
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