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 the hands of the Americans and their allies. Many became victims of the ...

Source: Vanity Fair Children also witnessed horrific violence in Vietnam. In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or most costly conflict, but its effects were deep and long-lasting. Its unpopularity polarized the country; its cost made it difficult to ...

On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S.

An hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, a vast network of tunnels are hidden 20 feet below the ground. They're called the Cu Chi Tunnels, and tourists travel from around the world to crawl ...

Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense, was severely concerned; despite massive territorial gains, the North Vietnamese troops continued to move south freely and didn’t seem the least ...

The War in Vietnam remains one of the most complex and controversial conflicts in American history. Far more than merely a humiliating military failure, the Vietnam War forced the United States to ...

When Roger H.C. Donlon joined the Army in 1958, he was already familiar with military life. He had enlisted in the Air Force in 1953, but left to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point ...

After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery, Search and destroy and Technology. Example Bombing President Johnson ordered the bombing ...