Of all the military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines had the most fearsome reputation. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’.