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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of three airmen killed in action in Laos in 1968 when their ...
He was 32. James Jr., like most of us our age, hadn’t thought about Vietnam at all. “I knew my Dad was in war, but it never crossed my mind that something could happen to him.
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, the upcoming July fly-in will commemorate the ...
OPINION The real legacy of ‘Napalm Girl’ The iconic Vietnam War photograph is unforgettable, but its impact was almost nonexistent. By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated May 28, 2025, 3:00 a.m.
The first American death in the nearly two-decades long war and the first name chronologically on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Richard Fitzgibbon Jr., of Weymouth.
One of the most striking images taken during the Vietnam War may have been attributed to the wrong photographer. Back in 1973, World Press Photo selected the Associated Press’ Nick Ut’s “The ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 6 (UPI) -- While the Vietnam War has been revisited countless times by American authors and filmmakers, a new Netflix documentary series looks to shake the dust of ...
In an era dominated by jet power, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider proved that prop planes still packed a punch. Against all odds, these rugged aircraft brought down a MiG fighter in one of the most jaw ...
April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of South Vietnam and the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The toll it took on both North and South was enormous: 1.1 million ...
The war dragged on for more than a decade and claimed 58,220 U.S. troops, and between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese troops. An estimated 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops ...
April 30 marks 50 years since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, though the conflict changed the U.S. in fundamental ways and left veterans like Burrows to often face the brunt of the public scrutiny.
HO CHI MINH CITY/HANOI - As a young U.S. intelligence analyst in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Chuck Searcy never thought that 50 years later he would be living in Communist Vietnam and helping ...