To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of ... Skyhawk fighter jet was shot down over North Vietnam, crash-landing behind enemy ...
Almost eleven months to the day after the opening round of Hawthorne, a battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade would get ambushed and badly mauled by a force of North Vietnamese infantry.
One is April 30, 1975, the day Saigon fell to North Vietnamese troops. The other is less specific, but it was the day about a decade ago when HNOC’s staff recognized a hole in the institution ...
PARSHALL – Charles Foote, a Vietnam veteran from Parshall, was going to college in Spearfish, South Dakota, when he enlisted ...
Initially, local guerrillas were given only a basic minimum of infantry training ... In December 1965, Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese leadership ordered a change in a way the war in the ...
President Johnson had committed himself to containing communism in Vietnam. In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US politicians in Congress ...