U.S. Navy sailor Doug Hegdahl was knocked off of the USS Canberra in the Gulf of Tonkin by a blast from the ship's massive ...

More than 2.7 million Americans served during the Vietnam War. Around 15,000 of them came from North Dakota. For many, the ...

On that day in 1975, the capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Even though thousands of Americans died in that 20-year war, the Asian country is still communist to this day. But a ...

The North Vietnamese were a superb light-infantry force — disciplined and determined to withstand hardship. Unfortunately, South Vietnamese soldiers have scant voice in the story, although their ...

THE VIETNAM WAR The Landmark Documentary Event by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Returns Thursday, April 24 at 9:00 pm Episode ...

Almost eleven months to the day after the opening round of Hawthorne, a battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade would get ambushed and badly mauled by a force of North Vietnamese infantry.

Since the North Vietnamese Air Force only represented a ... Much of the standard-issue U.S. Army infantry equipment proved poorly adapted to jungle and counter-insurgency warfare.

To this day, little is known in the West about the fate of the more than 200,000 Vietnamese prisoners of ... Skyhawk fighter jet was shot down over North Vietnam, crash-landing behind enemy ...

Vietnamese flags fly on the Hien Luong Bridge, with a memorial in the distance, at the former border between North and South Vietnam, Quang Tri province, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) ...