Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...
Suffolk County later this month will honor Vietnam veterans at a celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war’s end. Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine described the event as a ...
FORT BENNING, Ga. — March 29, 1973: The last U.S. ground troops depart the Republic of Vietnam. Today, March 29 has become a day of recognition, remembrance, healing, and education; and marks the ...
The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...
Turning Point: The Vietnam War is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger, that examines how the United States became involved in the civil war in Vietnam, starting in the early 1960s, ...
Mark Moyar, a scholar of U.S. foreign and military policy, years back had the opportunity to update an older argument on the viability of the Vietnam War. Moyar argues that the historical consensus on ...
BE THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF A DARK DAY IN U.S. NAVAL HISTORY. THAT’S WHEN A SHIP SANK TRAINING OFF THE COAST OF VIETNAM. 74 SAILORS DIED. BUT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, NONE OF THEIR ...
The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...
Test your knowledge about the conflict that defined a generation. A half-century after the war’s finale, the aging of the baby boomer generation means firsthand memories of the conflict are fading.
Jack Strong peered inside the Vietnam-era V-100 Commando armored car on display Saturday and reflected on the “biggest toy” he drove nearly six decades earlier. He would hop onto the massive 4-foot ...