It effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with helicopter flights taking staff and dependants from the roof of the US Embassy in ...

This often meant soldiers were easy targets for Vietcong guerrilla attacks as the ... soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers ...

particularly cannabis Drugs were seen as a way to escape the anxieties and horrors of fighting in Vietnam Desertion Huge numbers of soldiers ran away from the army Drafted soldiers were mostly ...

Haired Army,” this all-female unit emerged in the 1960s as part of a larger uprising in southern Vietnam called the Dong Khoi Movement. The uprising began in Ben Tre Province in 1960. During this time ...

Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war.

Robert Dallek, Historian: There were people urging Kennedy to understand that if the Viet Cong guerillas succeed in South Vietnam, it's going to be seen as a model for guerilla warfare in other ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam ... a way the war in the ...

Johnson (LBJ) for turning the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war to one of conventional warfare. Yet we still could have won the war in 1968! Contrary to the claims of the likes of Walter Cronkite ...