In another photo by Faas, this Vietnamese litter bearer, responsible for helping deal with a mass-casualty situation, wears a face mask to keep the smell of dead bodies from overwhelming him.

The National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese troops used the tunnels for attacks, transportation and living quarters. Facing South Vietnamese and Western forces that were stronger and better ...

North Vietnamese Army (N.V.A.) troops more often used standard-issue gear; their Viet Cong counterparts dressed as the peasants in whose villages they sought harbor, and frequently used improvised ...

On paper, the legal requirements for U.S., South Vietnamese and allied troops were indeed unambiguous: All military legal decrees written by the U.S. high command prohibited violence against ...

Escalation President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam ... the peasants that the Americans and South Vietnamese would take this land back.

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.

Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Vietminh, a resistance army which fought for Vietnamese independence ... By 1968 over half a million American troops were in Vietnam and the war was costing ...

Three American soldiers appeared at his family’s home a couple of hours later and forced the mother and five children into their bomb shelter, a structure most every Vietnamese home had during ...