In 1966, Vietnam was the year’s biggest story. There where other news were the places and events, civil rights, Congress, business and labor, but Vietnam, a war, young men dyeing and questioning ...

Ernest Sachs of the First Marine Division, who had flown 725 combat missions as a helicopter pilot in northern South Vietnam between August 1966 and September 1967. Sachs had agreed that his ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

In July 1965, Johnson sent another 100,000 troops, and a further 100,000 in 1966. Air and Artillery ... into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’.

In a major editorial on the Vietnam war last October, the CRIMSON supported Administration policy while calling for a prolonged pause in the bombing of North Vietnam and recognition of the ...

Major Thuy consoles a tearful Steve Hassett [Screen capture from the documentary Fragment of Memory] By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had ...

A Citadel graduate who was killed in action while saving his crew members during the Vietnam War posthumously received the nation’s highest military honor Friday. President Joe Biden awarded the Medal ...

Captain Nelson was a native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina and was killed in action during the Vietnam War in 1966. During the attack Nelson saved three members of his helicopter flight crew and ...