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

Former U.S. Army armor officer Mike Guardia has made the most of his second career as an insightful military biographer. The talented author of a 2013 book about Vietnam War...
Vietnam’s Wild Weasels

A band of daring fliers team up in a classified program to take out the radars guiding their biggest threat—Soviet SA-2 Guideline missiles. Like many American boys who had grown...
VIDEO: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Discuss New Vietnam Documentary

The Vietnam War, a documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premieres Sunday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. on PBS. In an interview with Vietnam magazine, Burns and Novick...
Valor | John Lee Levitow

Air Force AC-47 gunships, called “Spooky” and “Puff the Magic Dragon,” prowled the skies over South Vietnam during the dangerous hours of darkness when grunts on the...

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Topgun Origins

Just back from Vietnam, a Navy pilot was given a new mission: Start a school...
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The Moonglow of Apollo 11

How troops in Vietnam saw the lunar landing...
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One of the Most Decorated Veterans of All Time: David H. Hackworth

The record for combat decorations in Vietnam...
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The M107 Shelled the Enemy Deep Inside North Vietnam

The M107, which entered production in 1963, arose from the desire for a family of artillery weapons that were self-propelled (drivable), transportable by air and based on the same chassis. The result was two systems: the M107 gun and M110...
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A Wedding Ring in a Muddy Pond in Vietnam Led to a...

More than 50 years after being shot down, a Navy pilot is honored for his sacrifice The inscription on the white marble headstone of Lt. Cmdr. Frederick Peter Crosby, whose remains were buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San...
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America’s ‘Last Battle’ of the Vietnam War was a Fiasco

The humiliating April 29, 1975, image of U.S. helicopters evacuating Americans and Vietnamese from Saigon rooftops as North Vietnamese troops overran South Vietnam to win the Vietnam War was a political-military disaster damaging...
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How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had

North Vietnam racked up fewer aerial victories than it claimed...
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Joining Forces

Nations that sent troops to support the U.S and South Vietnam...


	
	
		
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