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 ...

To his surprise, his ruse worked. The North Vietnamese troops began referring to Hegdahl as “the incredibly stupid one,” and because they believed he was harmless, they gave him what was essentially ...

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 ...

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 ...

Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, while Saigon struggles to pacify the countryside. As an antiwar movement builds at home ...

It was, after all, half a century ago – exactly half a century. The last U.S. military units had left Vietnam two years before, leaving the South Vietnamese Army to defend what was left. In over a ...

Though the U.S. lost more than 58,000 troops during the conflict, the American loss of life is dwarfed by the staggering losses shouldered by the Vietnamese. In addition to the roughly 200,000 ...

When hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese troops pour into the south, Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses. For the next 40 years, Americans and Vietnamese from all sides search for ...

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 ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla troops, and the 30th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the U ...

The inspection also inspected personal equipment and military gear of troops in accordance with U.N. regulations. The equipment and vehicles of the Vietnam’s Engineering Company Rotation 3 ready for ...