There were a number of long-term and short-term reasons to explain why the USA became involved in Vietnam in the late 1950s. Before World War Two Vietnam had been part of the French Empire.

The Museum’s Huey served with four units in Vietnam between 1966 and 1970. Though now painted in National Guard livery, it retains an XM52 smoke generator similar to the one it carried for the ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the ...