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Politics, Vietnam Point of View, Vietnam War
Newly declassified documents and fresh insight from Frank Snepp, the CIA's chief analyst in Vietnam during 1975, present a revealing new picture of the chaotic final days of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, before enemy forces captured Saigon...
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Vietnam Magazine
WWII Veteran Jimmy Stewart flew his last bombing mission in Vietnam on February 21, 1966, while on Air Force Reserve duty—and it almost ended in disaster....
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HistoryNet, Vietnam, Vietnam Point of View
Rapid mobilization of Communist anti-aircraft guns, missiles and jet fighters provided Hanoi with a potent resistance to U.S. bombers in the early years of the Vietnam War...
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Mag: Vietnam Hero, Personalities, Politics, Rolling Thunder, Vietnam, Vietnam First Person, Vietnam Personalities
How author Maggie Ruth learned the fate of the MIA on her POW bracelet, and changed her view of Vietnam veterans...
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Gear, HistoryNet, Vietnam, Vietnam Missions
Piasecki Helicopter Corp. developed the H-21 as an arctic rescue helicopter, and in Vietnam it flew under less than perfect conditions....
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Personalities, Vietnam, Vietnam First Person, Vietnam Personalities
Former Marine Walt Sides explains his views on the Vietnam War and social history...
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Gear, Mag: Vietnam Hero, Vietnam Magazine
Just seconds before a B-52 released its bombs over North Vietnam, the crew found itself in the bulls eye of a surface to air missile traveling at 2,400 mph...
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Mag: Vietnam Personalities, Personalities, Vietnam Magazine
Four-star general Richard Myers, who served in Vietnam as an Air Force fighter pilot, became familiar to millions of TV viewers as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the initial phase of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq....
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HistoryNet, Mag: Vietnam Events
The 1st Battalion of the Big Red One's Black Lions Regiment was called into battle to help a battalion force under NVA attack in An My during the Tet Offensive in 1968....
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Vietnam Magazine
Conceived in 1971 as part of a small group's effort to help spread awareness of the mistreatment of POWs, the POW/MIA flag has become a national symbol ...
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Vietnam, Vietnam Missions, Vietnam War
On April 26, 1968, during Operation Delaware, Air Force Radio News reporter Mike D. Shepherd flew aboard a C-130 into the heavily defended A Shau Valley to interview 1st Cav Div (Airmobile) troopers who were there to retake the valley from...
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Vietnam Magazine
Gulf of Tonkin - A secret report reveals how easily soldiers, spies and politicians can jump to a conclusion and plunge the country into war....
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Vietnam, Vietnam Gallery
Mike Bowen ran a total of 58,282 miles, one mile for every soldier killed or missing in the Vietnam war....
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Drafts, Politics
United States Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) wants to see a national Vietnam Veterans Day established to honor those who served. He talks about the legislation and related matters in an exclusive interview that appeared in the February 2014...
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HistoryNet, Politics
In an excerpt from Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Keever explores new evidence that support her 1968 story for Christian Science Monitor that Richard Nixon secretly tried to scuttle President Johnson's peace talk plan days before...
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Gear, Vietnam Point of View
In the Vietnam War, adapting old principles of traditional cavalry to the new capabilities of the helicopter created an unprecedented fighting force...
