Vietnam
R.V. Lee |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Vietnam War Stories is a collection of oral histories by Wisconsin's Vietnam War veterans, complimented with a selection of historic film footage. The DVD offers a good overview of the history of the Vietnam War.
Published: June 14, 2011 at 10:27 am
Steve Maxner, director of the Vietnam Center and Archive at Texas Tech, has seen the Oral History Project grow to over 1,000 interviews
Published: June 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Watch Vietnam magazine's highlights from Rolling Thunder 2011
Published: June 09, 2011 at 5:14 pm
Rolling Thunder Final Cut from Vietnam Magazine on Vimeo.…
Jon Guttman |
Published: May 25, 2011 at 5:59 pm
The electronic conflict pioneered by the Wild Weasel vs the Guideline SAM during the Vietnam War laid the groundwork for a new form of air-ground warfare that is still evolving today
Claude G. Berube |
Published: May 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm
During WWII, Henry Prunier parachuted into Indochina as part of an OSS mission to "give training to a 'Mr. Hoo's' (Ho Chi Minh's) insurgent forces"
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:14 pm
An intergenerational brotherhood
The war in Vietnam ended nearly four decades ago, but for some veterans their war lasted much longer and for many it has never come to a close. Beyond physical wounds that have dogged so many, the …
Vietnam magazine |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Unidentified Dollies Update
Regarding your April inquiry in Letters about the picture of Donut Dollies submitted by Dave Andrews. The photo was one of several taken by the Public Information Office for use as the 1969 Christmas card from the …
Robert Guttman |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:12 pm
The Mayaguez Incident by Robert Mahoney explains how Washington dealt with the capture of Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge at the end of the Vietnam War, and the dramatic rescue mission carried out by the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force
R.V. Lee |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:11 pm
The Columbia History of the Vietnam War is a collection of 14 essays by respected scholars that examines historical themes with contemporary relevance
R.V. Lee |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Michael Lemish’s book, Forever Forward: K-9 Operations in Vietnam, offers an examination of the some 4,000 dogs that served in Vietnam, frequently engaging the enemy and credited with averting an estimated 10,000 American casualties
Peter Brush |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:06 pm
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam, by Christina Schwenkel, describes the ongoing struggle inside today’s Vietnam over memory and history. Today the struggle is between American capitalism and Vietnamese socialism; previously the same struggle took place on the battlefields. of Southeast Asia.
Jon Guttman |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:03 pm
B-57Bs flew their first real combat missions, and the first bomb strike by jet aircraft on South Vietnamese soil, in 1965. Their exploits and incursions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail into Laotian air space were buried in secrecy.
Marc Leepson |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 12:01 pm
While the austere Zippo lighter was ubiquitous among GIs during WWII, it became a cultural icon in Vietnam.
Ned Seath, oral history |
Published: May 12, 2011 at 11:21 am
While in a firefight, he reassembled an M-60 from two damaged guns and stood up to finish off the NVA who were coming up on a line, about 30-40 feet away, earning him the Navy Cross 44 years later
Vietnam magazine |
Published: April 27, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Through intrigue and ruthlessness, Madame Nhu became South Vietnam’s most powerful woman—and ultimately its most hated
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