The people were worth it. They aspired to be free.” Nicholson served as an advisor to Vietnamese troops fighting against communist forces. During a brutal firefight in 1963, Nicholson’s troops ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

MANILA--A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin “Agent Orange” used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year’s winners of ...

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 history books record April 30, 1975, as the day Saigon fell to conquering North Vietnamese troops, ending nearly two decades of internal conflict in what the colonising French once called the ...

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 ...