“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam. These days, Broyles is best known for creating “China Beach,” co-writing “Apollo 13” and ...

At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — History books can teach us about the Vietnam War. But it's the six-part docuseries, "Vietnam: The War That Changed America," that shows first-person testimony, never-before-seen ...

This chapter traces how Vietnam’s long fight against foreign control collided with Cold War paranoia, turning a messy post-colonial struggle into America’s most divisive war. From Geneva and Diem to ...

Americans' trust in the government—now near a record low—has been underwater for decades. But that wasn't always the case..

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

The CBU-24, a key cluster bomb during the Vietnam War era, was an unguided dispenser releasing up to 665 BLU-24/B bomblets—small, roughly baseball-sized explosives filled with steel fragments.

Though Nixon initiated Operation Linebacker II, a bombing campaign against North Vietnam coinciding with the Christmas ...

America’s relations with Vietnam have been astounding, considering the violent history between the two countries in the 1960s and ’70s. In fact, Vietnam now wants to buy F-16 Fighting Falcons from ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...