President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara viewed the aerial campaign as a means to squash the North Vietnamese army without risking the lives of American troops in ground combat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Vietnamese civilians were constantly caught in the crossfire and began to question whether the US army was really on their side. US troops became very unpopular.

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.