To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war who fell into ... jet was shot down over North Vietnam, crash-landing behind enemy ...

The Vietnam War ... Vietnamese New Year, Tet, the North Vietnamese launched a large offensive against the South. The fighting was fierce, but the American-backed South scored a crushing military ...

while helping to strengthen the South Vietnamese army with the aim of getting it to take over the war against communism. At the same time, Nixon escalated the bombing campaign in North Vietnam ...

before it was occupied by the Japanese during World War Two ... coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. This provoked President Johnson into retaliating with military attacks ...

This year marks a handful of important anniversaries in the history of the Vietnam War ... North Vietnamese troops met in their first major combat engagement at the Battle of Ia Drang and the U.S ...