Vietnam

historynet.com/mcnamaras-boys What happened today, yesterday—or any day you care to search. Test your historical acumen—every day! Consider the fallout of historical events had they gone the ‘other’ way. The gadgetry of war—new and old—effective, and

In the Autumn 2022 issue’s “What’s Your Favorite Song?” (Homefront, with a photo of soldiers gathered around a radio), you characterize troops as listening to tunes. In actuality, this is Team 11 of E Company, 75th Ranger Regiment, on the chopper pad

There is now a face for every name inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., thanks to volunteer researchers. The Wall of Faces gallery, a webpage that profiles members of the military who died as a result of their service in Vi

No. This myth appears to have originated from a blog written by prolific conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen more than 40 years after the incident. The blog post claimed that McCain, then a U.S. Navy A-4E Skyhawk pilot aboard aircraft carrier USS Forres

Tim Page, a photojournalist acclaimed for his work during the Vietnam War, died Aug. 24, 2022, at age 78 in New South Wales, Australia. Page, born in Turnbridge Wells, England, on May 25, 1944, left the United Kingdom in 1962 and traveled through Eur

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In the spring of 1969, I arrived in Vietnam as a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) after completing a small unit leadership training program at Fort Benning, Georgia. Even though I was an untested infantry squad leader, I was put in

The 1965-72 seasons were a historic time for professional football, with the kickoff of the first Super Bowl, the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League, Jets quarterback Joe Namath’s brash boast of victory for his un

At 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 18, 1972, Hanoi time, U.S. Air Force F-111 Aardvark attack aircraft initiated Operation Linebacker II by striking six North Vietnamese airfields. One minute later, EB-66 Destroyer electronic warfare planes started to jam enemy ra

Of the many battles the U.S. fought in the Vietnam War none hurt more than the 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley and the 1968 Tet Offensive. The outcome of those clashes and hundreds of smaller ones were not the clearcut, decisive victories that sen

There are several painful examples of the impact that intercepted radio signals had on U.S. operations, but perhaps the most notable occurred in the first major encounter between American forces and the North Vietnamese. In mid-November 1965, 500 tro

Barbara Annette Robbins checked her luggage at the United Airlines desk, passed through the doors and walked toward the airplane waiting on the tarmac at Denver’s Stapleton airport in August 1964. In film footage captured by her father, the young wom

If asked, “When did America lose the Vietnam War?” most respondents with some knowledge of the war would likely answer, “April 30, 1975.” That day, North Vietnamese Army tanks crashed through the gates of the Republic of Vietnam’s Presidential Palace

In Year of the Hawk: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965, author James A. Warren sets out to chronicle the Vietnam War with an emphasis on one particular year. The book contains three parts: background on the war, the various methods used to fight i

On July 5, 2022, President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to retired Army Maj. John J. Duffy for conspicuous gallantry while serving as the sole American adviser with the 11th Airborne Battalion, Vietnamese Airborne Division. The U.S. military’

Richard Edward Cavazos, born Jan. 31, 1929, was a sixth-generation Texan of Mexican American descent related to Francita Alvarez, known as the “Angel of Goliad” for persuading a Mexican officer not to kill Texas prisoners of war in the Goliad Massacr

At 8:05 a.m. on July 24, 1965, four F-4C Phantom II aircraft from the Air Force’s 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron were patrolling for MiGs that could threaten U.S. bombers southwest of Hanoi when two EB-66C Destroyer electronic warfare reconnaissance