Art Greenspon was in his 20s while documenting the Vietnam War for the Associated Press. Days before being wounded, he made a photograph so incredible that war photographer David Douglas Duncan ...
On the night of January 29, 1968, I’m in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. ‘Still (?),’ the city remains calm. The so-called ‘Tet Offensive,’ in which the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ...
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Hundreds of veterans, visitors, and residents gathered for the groundbreaking of a new Vietnam War Memorial, far exceeding the city’s expected attendance. The City of Myrtle ...
As a young man, Lon Holmberg was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War, even protesting America’s involvement in the conflict. But when Holmberg was called to duty via the military draft, despite his ...
The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial conflicts in history, one that divided the nation on moral and political lines. It left an indelible black mark in the annals of the American military, ...
Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...
Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the outcome of an entire fight American units relied on rifles, helicopters, tanks ...
American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...