Find here all articles related to the Vietnam War that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
The Continental Army had Yankee Doodle. Johnny Reb had Dixie and the Yankees retaliated with Marching Through Georgia. When the doughboys headed overseas to bail out the beleaguered Allies in World War I, they vowed that they wouldn’t come back “til it’s over Over There.” World War II had big bands and the Andrews Sisters …
Vietnam’s Playlist: Songs of Survival for the Soldiers Read More »
When President John F. Kennedy, the trailblazer of the New Frontier, called upon Americans to ask not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country, his inaugural message sounded a clarion call to a younger generation that wanted to serve in a noble cause. JFK was a World …
The Vietnam War and George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq share several tragic similarities. In both cases domestic political calculations, rather than military necessity or feasibly, led the country to war. As part of these political calculations, Lyndon Johnson and Bush convinced the American people that war was necessary to protect national security. In fact, …
Are we doomed to repeat the lessons of Vietnam and Iraq? Read More »
At 96 years old, he’s had a long time to develop stories and tales. From his 32 combat missions to the time he called in his own close air support and medical rescue after being shot down — the man is filled with nearly as many stories as he has told from behind the camera. …
“They call me legend” – Chief Master Sgt. Doug Morrell Read More »
Rows after rows of once-majestic aircraft are lined up at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in the baking heat of Arizona’s Tucson desert, left abandoned in piles of metal. This is where planes go to rest – a 2,600-acre patch of U.S. desert where several generations of military aircraft are stored by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and …
During the North Vietnamese Army’s surprise 1968 Tet Offensive, a fierce battle raged in the city of Hue. Pitting North Vietnamese Army regulars and Vietcong against South Vietnamese Army troops and U.S. Marines, the month-long battle ended in defeat for the attackers. This photograph from that battle, the Battle of Hue, February 6, 1968, shows …
Col. James “Nick” Rowe played a large role in designing the modern training programs for Special Forces soldiers, especially the school that prepares troops to survive being taken captive. Rowe graduated West Point in 1960 and was eventually sent to South Vietnam as a military advisor. In 1963, then 1st Lt. Rowe was captured in a Viet …
Special Forces Legend James N. Rowe was saved by his beard Read More »
A small cadre of mid-grade Pentagon officers — the “renegades,” some call them — are arguing for a light attack capability for the U.S. Air Force. Believing the United States will find itself fighting in Third World trouble spots for years to come, they want the Air Force to have its own squadrons of a …
America’s press, public, and even Congress paid relatively little attention to the experience of the wounded soldier during the Vietnam War. Weekly casualty reports from U.S. headquarters in Saigon, South Vietnam, gave numbers, but rarely told the story. The Pentagon figure for Americans in Vietnam who suffered “wounds not mortal” is 303,604, including 153,303 of …
Secret Air War in Laos Two wars were being waged in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and early 1970s. One was the “public war” in Vietnam. Highly publicized and highly controlled from Washington, it had all the media trappings associated with major military operations. The other was a “secret war” in Laos. Waged under the tightest of security, little …
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