More than 170 truce violations—and a major Viet Cong attack two hours before the truce ended—made the New Year’s lull the bloodiest of the Viet Nam war’s eight ceasefires. Despite their ...
The Viet Cong dug elaborate tunnel complexes to use as safe bases, conducted hit-and-run attacks on Americans, and tried to avoid large-scale battles. The GIs usually moved slowly, calling in ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in ...
In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas, this Vietnamese litter bearer, responsible for helping deal with a mass ...
The Japanese strike was the only successful enemy attack on mainland America during World War II. It seems likely that the Viet Cong raid was aimed at obtaining hospital equipment, with Rev. T.
Thus, the United States has been bombing North Vietnam presumably to halt the Viet Cong attacks, without having produced tenable evidence that Hanoi actually controls the movement in the South.
The Vietnam war. Twenty years of vicious combat in the white-hot jungles of a country most Americans knew nothing about.In 1966, WRGB news anchor Ernie Tetrault ...
This is the story of how America’s Australian allies joined the fight against Communist tyranny in Vietnam. This coming April ...
As with Operation Rolling Thunder, most of the people affected by these weapons were actually Vietnamese civilians rather than the Viet Cong.
Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC ... and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He covers the public perception ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in ...