The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or ... 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US Congress then passed, with only two dissenting ...

Over one million refugees fled the war-ravaged countries of Vietnam. They were prepared to risk everything. Those who took to the ocean in tiny overcrowded ships were dubbed the “boat people.” ...

“Apparently mistaking the Maddox for South Vietnamese, three DRV patrol boats launched a torpedo ... eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War. US divisive escalation in Vietnam ...

Vietnam Says China Sank One of Its Fishing Boats Tensions over a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters of the South China Sea rose even further after a Vietnamese fishing boat sank nearby following a ...

From technologically advanced air power to small four-man boats with machine guns ... of the most dangerous jobs undertaken in the Vietnam War – one each involving the US Army, Navy and Air ...

In small villages along coastal Vietnam, basket boats were born out of financial necessity but have come to represent independence. In the early morning hours, fishermen begin their day by helping ...

After World War Two, it was returned to French ... just off the coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. This provoked President Johnson into retaliating with military attacks ...

Instead of moving to America before the end of the war, Tran's parents had ... they missed the boat that would have taken them out of Vietnam as refugees. One time, the family ended up in jail ...

A military history expert gives low marks for realism to Michael J. Fox’s controversial 1989 Brian De Palma-directed Vietnam War movie.