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Photo of evacuation of a firebase, Vietnam 1968.

What Was the Concept Behind Fire Bases in Vietnam?

by David T. Zabecki5/9/20235/11/2023

Similar to the 19th-century fort concept, fire support bases in Vietnam could reinforce each other across long distances with powerful effects.

Illustration of Viet Cong tunnel network in Vietnam.

How “Tunnel Rats” Fought the Viet Cong in Underground Tunnels in Vietnam

by William P. Head3/6/20233/7/2023

Photo of Jim Liles

The Viet Cong Were Shooting Down Americans From a Cave Until This GI Stopped Them

by Jim Liles2/24/20232/24/2023

Photo of North Vietnamese troops during an assault on a South Vietnamese paratroop base at Laos during the Vietnam War.

How Did Vietnamese Forces Block U.S. Firepower? With a Hug.

by Warren Wilkins2/14/20232/17/2023

The Day Miss America Almost Got Shot Down Over Vietnam

by Laurel Schaefer-Bozoukoff2/6/20232/7/2023

Photo of Soldiers of the National Liberation Front , the Viet Cong, in the early 1960s display weapons from a variety of sources, from left, a captured American M79 grenade launcher; an American M1 carbine, captured from the French or South Vietnamese or supplied by the Chinese; and a K-50M submachine gun supplied by North Vietnam.

Here Are the Weapons of the NVA — Backed by Russia and China

by Jon Guttman12/19/202212/19/2022

Are There Parallels Between ‘Avatar’ And The Vietnam War?

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/16/202212/16/2022

Photo of Barbara Robbins in South Vietnam, enjoys a day with friend Bill McDonald on a rented fishing boat off the coast of Nha Trang in fall 1964.

This Young Woman Was the First CIA Agent Killed in Vietnam

by Cathryn J. Prince12/13/202212/13/2022

President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu Making a Joint Statement at Midway Island 6 8 1969. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How Corrupt Was the South Vietnamese Government?

by Erik Villard9/13/20229/14/2022

He Went Missing in Vietnam in 1970. His Hometown Didn’t Forget Him.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher9/7/20229/7/2022