It was daybreak in the jungle. The pilot, in his early 20s, was flying a light observation aircraft (or "Loach") over the U Minh Forest, searching for North Vietnamese forces. On that December morning ...
Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: An unidentified Marine poses as rubble smokes behind him. U.S. Marines battled Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army house by house, street by street, brick by ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Lowcountry Medal of Honor recipients were honored Friday during a ceremony at Patriots Point. News 2 spoke to Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Marine Corps Major General ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A half-century after the Tet Offensive punctured American hopes of victory in Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is visiting the former enemy in search of a different kind of win: ...
In mid-1967, the North Vietnam leadership had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action and part popular uprising, the effort included attacks ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: To an American public already leery about the escalating costs and moral compromises of the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hue established that “winning” in Vietnam would ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the choice between writing an intimate and riveting narrative or a more guarded, academic, high-level analysis, Bowden opts for the former. That is no mistake, ...