Vietnam War
HistoryNet |
Published: April 19, 2013 at 6:13 pm
TED Challenge: Defuse, Heal & Grow campaign is raising money to remove old landmines and other unexploded ordinance from Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.
Published: April 11, 2013 at 3:56 pm
A few hours after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, Navy A4 pilot Everett Alvarez was shot down on a bombing mission near Hanoi, the first U.S. aviator taken captive during the Vietnam War
Vietnam magazine |
Published: April 10, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Wounded veterans continue to serve comrades and country in the Military Order of the Purple Heart
Robert L. Bateman |
Published: April 04, 2013 at 4:55 pm
Already a legend for his behavior in combat at Ia Drang, Rick Rescorla went on to save countless lives when the Twin Towers were attacked
Published: March 26, 2013 at 6:44 pm
The genesis of Major General John Borling's collection 'Taps on the Walls: Poems From the Hanoi Hilton'
Warren E. Thompson |
Published: March 19, 2013 at 1:58 pm
During the Vietnam War, the Wild Weasels flew as a protection screen in specially equipped F-105F Thuds into a target area to sweep and destroy surface to air missile (SAM) sites, to protect "strike packages" or a flight of fighters that followed on
Rod Paschall |
Published: March 13, 2013 at 3:37 pm
In Operation Junction City, Vietnam War's biggest operation, Feb. 21-May 14, 1967, including the largest paratroop jump since World War II, Gen. William Westmoreland won his big-unit campaign but lost confidence that the war could be won
HistoryNet Staff |
Published: February 27, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Frederik Logevall examines the critical period of regional and world tensions that flared up into America's Vietnam War.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: February 25, 2013 at 5:53 pm
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, author of Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam, gives insight into the war's final chapter, in this interview with Vietnam magazine about her life and her work
MHQ |
Published: February 12, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Recently released American POWs as they return home from Vietnam 40 years ago. See more on MHQ Facebook!
Elizabeth A. Allen, oral history |
Published: January 22, 2013 at 12:59 pm
During the Vietnam War, Capt. Elizabeth Allen joined the U.S. Army with a master's degree in psychiatric nursing and served in the Nurse Corps on the front lines at the 71st and 12th Evac Hospitals tending to the injured and dying
Published: January 09, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Counting the Years
Last Memorial Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, President Barack Obama launched the Department of Defense program to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. On the stage that day were Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and …
Published: January 08, 2013 at 6:26 pm
In Republic F-105 Thunderchief, author Peter Davies guides readers through the plane's technical details, with photos and illustrations to show everything from ordnance to the dual option of refueling that was unique
Published: January 08, 2013 at 6:17 pm
In Agent Orange: History, Science and the Politics of Uncertainty, author Edwin Martini finds there is no evidence to support claims that the military and policymakers knew about the dangers of Agent Orange in the early 1960s but chose to ignore them
Published: January 08, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Hailing Hereford
I've been reading Vietnam magazine for several years. This is my first letter. The October 2012 account of the brave men in the article "Last Stand at Landing Zone Hereford" is excellent, one of the best articles I've …
Carl O. Shuster |
Published: January 08, 2013 at 5:45 pm
North Vietnam's Soviet-built Mi-6 Hook went into service in 1962 as the world's largest and fastest helicopter
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