The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia involving North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) ...

From jungle ambushes to political upheaval, the Vietnam War exposed the limits of American military power in the Cold War era ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

Former Milford resident Robert E. Layman Jr. perished in South Vietnam May 22, 1969, when the U.S. Army medical helicopter he piloted came under enemy fire and crashed. Layman, 20, will join three ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Linda Knightstep was only 9 years old when she made a decision that would determine the path her life would take. “It was very clear to me that caring for others was what I wanted to ...

This year’s Small Business Saturday on Nov. 29 meant a little more to artist and business owner Everett Carter. Carter, a Vietnam War veteran, was selling some of his art on a day when Americans are ...

ACCORDING to official estimates from the BMJ, the US war on Vietnam killed over 3 million Vietnamese people, two thirds of ...

That film is Platoon, a 1986 war drama directed by Oliver Stone. Reviews from fans remain some of the strongest of any war movie ever made. One person said: “I think Platoon is the best war movie ...

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 ...

As the Vietnam War raged on in Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, a separate United States-backed operation was also ...