An 8-second clip of helicopters lifting U.S. troops out of combat in Vietnam stirred memories for one of the last soldiers pulled from the jungle.
U.S. Navy Reserve Lt. Cmdr. Larry R. Kilpatrick was conducting a "night armed reconnaissance mission" when he lost radio ...
Vietnam-era veterans exposed to nerve agents and hallucinogenic drugs in a classified military research program more than 50 ...
Saigon, South Vietnam, October 1969: Unidentified person hands out boxes of Jujyfruits candy to local Vietnamese children in Saigon. This photo was one of many taken during Stars and Stripes photo ...
Lynn Harnden spent 1,200 combat hours in the cockpit of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, known by its nickname “Huey” during the Vietnam War, and for many soldiers on the battlefield it was a welcomed ...
The risk of a military confrontation between China and Vietnam is rising. Although the two countries have enjoyed close party-to-party ties for decades, since 2011 they have both asserted ...
Israel’s “Iron Lady” led the country as its fourth prime minister between 1969 and 1974 ... It also made the military cool again for a generation too young to remember Vietnam.
Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing of strategic military targets in North Vietnam, including air raids on the capital city, Hanoi, and bases and supply routes for the Vietcong.
Warfare in Vietnam. He began in the U.S. Navy from 1953 ... The XM21 started circulating in the U.S. Army in 1969. The M21 was used until 1988 when the M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS) replaced ...
In a video call, Vermillion, 76, of Altadena, California, now president of the Vietnam Dustoff Association, recalled his first mission in Vietnam in January 1969 when he had to put the UH-1 Huey ...
A policy change could see women automatically registered for conscription into the U.S. military ... during the Vietnam War.