Vietnam War Figures

Vietnam War Figures

The South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family

As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster

Vietnam War Figures

Hall of Valor | Cau Le

Combat leadership earned officer South Vietnam’s top honor

Vietnam War Figures

Media Digest | Vietnam War Officer’s Ideas Changed Postwar Army

Today in History: Born on May 21

0427

Plato, Greek philosopher.

1527

Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal.

1844

Henri Rousseau, French painter.

1856

Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA.

1860

Willem Einthoven, physiologist, inventor of the electrocardiogram.

1867

Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist.

1878

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer.

1898

Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and industrialist.

1902

Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect.

1909

Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist.

1917

Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason).

1921

Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist.

1926

Robert Creeley, poet.

1944

Mary Bourke Robinson, first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997).

magazines

Vietnam

How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had

North Vietnam racked up fewer aerial victories than it claimed

times

Vietnam War

They Shot the War

An alternative newspaper for American GIs in Vietnam offered some raw glimpses into the conflict

regions

Asia

The South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family

As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster

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