Vietnam War
Marc Leepson |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm
A teenaged corpsman, Topmiller survived the carnage of Khe Sanh, but ministering to dead and dying Marines for 2 1/2 months affected him for the rest of his life.
R.V. Lee |
Published: June 28, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Wartorn goes back to our nation's deadliest war, to letters written by Pennsylvania rifleman Angelo Creapsey describing his despair, and shows how in a century and a half we've barely moved off the dime to address the issue of PTSD.
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
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 …
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 18, 2011 at 3:31 pm
His unyielding commitment to truth, and to Vietnam vets, is as solid as ever
Roger Vance |
Published: April 18, 2011 at 11:19 am
How beating their uniforms into a pulp is helping combat veterans reclaim and reframe their war experiences.
Vietnam magazine |
Published: April 12, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Find out who cover babe Jennifer Nyugen Noone was looking for
Vietnam magazine |
Published: March 30, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Marine lance corporal receives citation for action 45 years ago, in ceremony on Feb. 11, 2011, at Marine Corps Museum in Quantico
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