We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Full of fear and anxiety, a 10-year-old Vietnamese boy sailed across the South China Sea for 10 days, in 1986, with the expectation that a better life awaited him across the ocean.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (May 8, 2012) -- Since Vietnam, war strategies have changed. Weapons have changed. Battlefields have changed. But, what have not changed are the faces of war; young Soldiers and ...
You talk about people saying that we were baby killers, we were war pigs,” said Alphonse Ranni, a U.S. Army veteran of the ...
RAVENNA — Dennis Crowell didn’t know the dead U.S. soldier laying on the open ground between rows of trees where his 101st Airborne Division rifle company had sought cover at a village occupied by ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Army Staff Sergeant Al Fleming knew he was destined to serve his country. After all, his father was a Marine who fought in Korea. His stepfather and all of his uncles were also ...
JONESVILLE, Va. (WJHL) — The Vietnam War was the first to be shown on television, especially on the nightly news. But that only gave a glimpse of how horrific the war really was. Ed Johnston was one ...
Historian Gardner (Tonight We Die as Men) continues his series on the Third Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in this action-packed account of the unit’s tour-of-duty in Vietnam. Drawing on ...