How a million GIs in Vietnam seduced one Hollywood starlet who was talking to them over the airwaves

An Army photographer's story of triumph and tragedy behind one of the war's most iconic images from Tet

A young cadet's first, and lasting, brush with war's reality

In an excerpt from What It Is Like to Go to War, author Karl Marlantes lays out his rationale for lying in Vietnam

How a Vietnam vet ended up working undercover for Nixon's secret plan to disrupt an antiwar rally in Washington

A green brigade's unexpected and costly encounter in early November 1966 stopped a major enemy offensive dead in its tracks.

During the evacuation of Saigon, the USS Kirk received a surprising radio message to turn around and head back to Vietnam

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"

While the austere Zippo lighter was ubiquitous among GIs during WWII, it became a cultural icon in Vietnam.

How beating their uniforms into a pulp is helping combat veterans reclaim and reframe their war experiences.

In 1962, the CIA, U.S. Special Forces and Vietnam's Montagnards developed counterinsurgency tactics that live on today

Why 627 young Red Cross workers logged more than 2 million miles to bring hardened combat troops a touch of home in Vietnam

Maj. Norman Schwarzkopf's high expectations are instantly deflated after a brief encounter with the general in 1965

Killed 42 years ago, Etchberger single-handedly held off the NVA at a secret radar site and saved the lives of several airmen

On a slow boat to Saigon in 1965, an aspiring war reporter learns valuable lessons that would serve him well in his tumultuous first weeks as a stringer in Vietnam, when he assigns himself each morning to be where the action is, chasing rumors of war

Joe Galloway takes a hard look at the assessments of Ia Drang by the war's architects in Washington, Saigon and Hanoi: McNamara, Westmoreland, Ho and Giap