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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Mark Bowden’s Hue 1968 contains much that is timeless. In 1968, more than 500,000 Americans and 800,000 South Vietnamese troops were fighting 400,000 Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese ...

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 ...

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 ...