Screaming Phantoms and Skyraiders plastered the perimeters of jungle clearings with napalm ... Giving the Lie. Yet the Viet Cong made themselves scarce, unwilling to hold anything that the ...

The field commander of the Viet Cong forces that Terry Allen's Black ... more than 600 miles of marching through leech-infested jungle while subsisting on small portions of rice, bamboo shoots ...

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 ...

and were eventually executed while in Viet Cong custody. The exact locations and circumstances surrounding their deaths are unknown." Rumors remain about their status, with jungle tribesmen ...

This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong. Without warning ... the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload ...

In October 1967, in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. On October 17 ...

The area in which he landed was regularly patrolled by the Viet Cong. Remaining submerged up ... to look for signs of man-made objects in the jungle below. “If you found a square bush, a ...

As with Operation Rolling Thunder, most of the people affected by these weapons were actually Vietnamese civilians rather than the Viet Cong.

Johnrob/istockphotoThe Vietnam War remains a haunting yet fascinating time in history, and nearly half a century later, ...