Vietnam
Vietnam magazine |
Published: November 07, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Remembering LZ Hereford
The article "Last Stand at LZ Hereford" by Michael Christy (October) had me living that experience as if I were there. I served in Vietnam with the Marines, including 40 days under siege at Con Thien in …
Published: November 06, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Hereford's Hard Story
Some stories are harder than others. Harder to unwind, harder to absorb. Such is the story that played out over the course of about an hour one sweltering afternoon in May 1966 near Vinh Thanh in Binh …
Published: November 06, 2012 at 4:19 pm
A Shau Addendum
Although 45 years have passed, I remember some facts that are not quite in agreement with Richard Camp's fine article "Rescue in Death Valley" (April). I was a member of HMM-163 from November 1965 through June 1966. …
HistoryNet |
Published: October 25, 2012 at 3:11 pm
'National Salute to Veterans' honoring our 22 million American veterans airs on PBS Nov. 11, 2012, with co-hosts Joe Mantegna ('Criminal Minds') and Gary Sinise ('CSI: New York').
Vietnam magazine |
Published: October 12, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam veteran and former Nebraska senator, talks about his combat experience, serving alongside his brother Tom, and his recent selection to lead an advisory committee for the 50th anniversary events commemorating the Vietnam War
Published: September 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm
KaczmarczykIn spite of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decision striking down the Stolen Valor Act and upholding citizens' right to free speech, there are still laws on the books for civil and criminal fraud—obtaining some advantage or material …
Michael Christy |
Published: September 17, 2012 at 5:03 pm
The decision to leave a mortar platoon alone at Hereford on May 21, 1966, sealed the fate of its men and journalist Sam Castan
Published: July 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm
President Barack Obama delivered the keynote remarks at the Memorial Day Observance at The Wall on May 28, 2012. (Photo by Jim Greenhill)This year's Memorial Day observance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was highlighted by President Barack Obama's appearance …
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:53 pm
A new production on Broadway, The Columnist, which ran April through June 2012, examines the life of famed Cold War–era journalist Joseph Alsop (1910-89), whose op-ed column "Matter of Fact" ran in hundreds of newspapers for nearly 40 …
Charles R. Carr, oral history |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:09 pm
On his first helicopter assault, he jumped and ran the wrong way; his company was 30 ft. away, facing the other direction
Carl O. Schuster |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Featured two intermeshed contra-rotating rotors to facilitate hover control and eliminate the need for a tail rotor
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Saluting Summers
In the June "Letter From Vietnam," you wrote about retired Army colonel and founding editor of Vietnam Harry G. Summers Jr. and featured the cover of the premier issue of Vietnam published in 1988. I retrieved my first …
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Shows that the majority of those who served in the U.S. military in the Vietnam War were actually support troops
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Provides insight into the adaptation of man and equipment to an exceptional combat environment in Vietnam, where volunteers for clearing tunnels could come from infantry, engineers, armored cavalry or elsewhere
Vietnam magazine |
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:48 pm
An encompassing account of the 40-year arc in which America's Southeast Asian adventure became inevitable.
Published: July 10, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Willis' skill as a Huey pilot in 1966 is surpassed by his humorous storytelling, incisive commentary on the Vietnam War, wars in general and the warriors who wage them
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