The greatest battle implement ever devised.” General George S. Patton’s famous praise for the M1 Garand set a towering ...

After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find them ...

The southern termini of the Ho Chi Minh Trail spread out, like the invisible tentacles of a Portuguese man-o’-war, in the deep, jungles and high savanna of Phuoc Long and ...

Vietnam War movies are often harrowing and uncomfortably realistic, as seen in films like Hamburger Hill, Platoon, and Full ...

For Stony Point resident and Vietnam veteran Terry Miller, the story of his war experience isn’t about him — it’s about the ...

Daniel Shea is an anti-war veteran. That may sound like an oxymoron, but to understand it, you have to know his son Casey.

Nga’s eldest daughter, Viet Hai, born in 1968, suffers from a heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot. Her daughter died at the age ...

Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.

It’s often been described as one of the most divisive conflicts in the history of our country. The Vietnam War went on for nearly two decades, taking a ...

Roger Mindt, of the Carrington area, served in Vietnam from March 1969 to October 1970. He recalled his thoughts when he ...

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...

I spend part of Memorial Day at an annual ceremony in Alexandria honoring city residents killed or missing in Vietnam. I get ...