A-4 Skyhawk was one of the most important (although not the most glamorous) assets of US Navy in the Vietnam War. It was the workhorse that carried out numerous strikes and faced stronger and stronger ...

The M14’s lineage traces directly to the end of World War II, when the U.S. Army Ordnance Department attempted to better the Garand’s hallowed but constrained eight-round, clip-fed design. By ...

Between 1955 and 1975, U.S. deaths totaled 58,220, and it is estimated more than 254,256 South Vietnamese died. As a son of a World War II veteran, my father was welcomed home to a hero's welcome.

The Vietnam War—an era-defining, harrowing period of Southeast Asian and American history—remains one of the most controversial military conflicts to date, even half a century after its ...

An 8-second clip of helicopters lifting U.S. troops out of combat in Vietnam stirred memories for one of the last soldiers pulled from the jungle. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself, which ended 50 years ago this month.

However, Vietnam, another piece on the Cold War chessboard, would be entirely different. In the 20 years after the Korean War, Vietnam's jungle terrain posed new and unique challenges to military ...

One of the U.S. military’s many challenges in the Vietnam War was fighting through a seemingly endless jungle that the enemy knew better than Americans ever could. Its solution was Operation ...

France, which also lost a war in Vietnam, sent a minister to last year's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when French colonial rule collapsed.

On Wednesday – 55 years, six months and 15 days after what he called his most terrifying day in the Vietnam jungle – he’ll get the second-highest honor of the military branch for “valor in ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its ...

Causes of Vietnam War. 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, ... a network of jungle paths and mountain trails, ... The number of US military advisers in Vietnam grows from 900 in 1960 to 11,000 in 1962.