Nearly 50 years have passed since the fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War, a tragic conflict that divided the nation as unprecedented TV news footage brought combat and its cost (some ...
This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a northern zone to be governed by the Viet Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by an anti ...
Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr., who served in the Vietnam War, was the commander of a Huey helicopter conducting a search-and-destroy reconnaissance mission in June 1966 when it was struck by a large ...
With its lush landscapes and stunning tropical beaches, it is hard to accept that the region was the setting of fierce fighting during the Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this coming April.
My father was a Vietnam war veteran.” Other contestants respond by praising his father, saying, “Your father must be an honourable man.” This exchange has angered many Vietnamese viewers ...
These awards will recognise actions that went “beyond the call of duty”, the Reuters report said. Kenneth J. David, a Vietnam War veteran who served as a radio-telephone operator, is the only living ...
The Cold War is the title given to the period of tension between the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, which dominated international relations for most of the second half of the 20th century.
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Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan. 17 at ...
When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...
Nicholas Sanza’s modified bamboo sticks and 14 inch Japanese bayonet that he used as a tunnel rat during the Vietnam War. (Photos courtesy of Nicholas Sanza) Early in the war, U.S. troops had ...
The rare movie supporting the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War at the time was generally regarded as 2 hours, 22 minutes of mind-numbing drivel, with legendary film critic Roger Ebert ...