Vietnam
Chris Noel |
Published: January 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm
How a million GIs in Vietnam seduced one Hollywood starlet who was talking to them over the airwaves
Vietnam magazine |
Published: December 12, 2011 at 12:02 pm
As Vietnam vets get older, Rowan wants to ensure they know how VVA can help them obtain the benefits they deserve
Debra Newbold |
Published: December 06, 2011 at 5:30 pm
The Dictabelts
The Nixon Presidential Library is releasing the second installment of Presidential dictabelts, which include President Nixon's recollections of his surreal early morning surprise visit to the Lincoln Memorial on May 9, 1970, when he met with anti-Vietnam War …
Don Hirst |
Published: November 21, 2011 at 3:39 pm
An Army photographer's story of triumph and tragedy behind one of the war's most iconic images from Tet
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Although designed to combat massed Soviet armored formations, the Patton tank was an invaluable weapon for infantry support and defending firebases
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Based on the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, the EC-121 Warning Star carried the long-range and height-finding radars required to provide coverage and warning to U.S. aircraft operating over North Vietnam
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 2:20 pm
The absence of enemy tanks in Vietnam drove the Centurion into a primarily infantry-support role, with several field modifications
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 18, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The USS Grayback, whose missions during and after the Vietnam War remain classified, was the only U.S. Navy submarine capable of covertly delivering Marines or Special Forces to an enemy shore
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: November 17, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Essentially a variant of the Soviet PPSh-41, the K-50M drew upon Hanoi's experience with captured French weapons, especially the MAT-49 submachine gun
Marc Leepson |
Published: November 16, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Some historical perspective on the different ways that "Vietnam" has influenced the Oval Office
Debra Newbold |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Vietnam veteran Sonny Silva, lower left, reviews war footage of "Vietnam in HD" with Lou Reda Productions senior editor Sammy Jackson. (lehighvalleylive.com)A small group of Vietnam vets joined a film production crew as "interns" last summer to help edit …
Debra Newbold |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 5:40 pm
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie's 242 portraits of U.S. soldiers who died in one week in Vietnam, an artistic undertaking inspired by the June 27, 1969, Life magazine cover and article, "Faces of …
Marc Leepson |
Published: November 15, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today's fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds
R.V. Lee |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:58 pm
A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor's war
Bill Jordan |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:52 pm
The ingredients that combined to create the Mayaguez disaster, the "last battle of the Vietnam War," following the fall of Saigon
Jon Guttman |
Published: November 14, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Sheds some light on an early workhorse, and warhorse, of the air war in Indochina--the first Western jet fighter capable of sustained Mach 1 flight
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