WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in American ...

It was the third attack on the base in the last five days. The Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in the Central Highlands, a missionary organization announced. The U.S. Command said enemy ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese launched an attack ...

A Viet Cong attack on Americans is typically a brief hit-and-run affair: the enemy usually runs as soon as the surprise wears off and U.S. units start hitting back with concerted firepower. The siege ...

THIS is the time of year in South Vietnam when Communist military forces emerge from their monsoon hibernation. The wet season by tradition and by circumstance is devoted to recruiting, retraining, ...

Summary and All You Need to Know: In 1964, the USNS Card, a World War II escort carrier repurposed for supply duties, was sunk in Saigon Port by a daring Viet Cong attack. Two commandos planted ...

WASHINGTON – As the air raid sirens and mortar blasts went off, medical evacuation crews dropped the wounded off at a hospital near the demilitarized zone. Young nurses worked around-the-clock to ...

Nearly 700 years ago, when Kublai Khan’s Mongol hordes swept out of the north, Viet Nam’s legendary military hero, Tran Hung Dao, sparked the courage of his beleaguered army by having them tattoo on ...