This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, May 26, 1968. It is republished unedited in its original form. She is a pretty 16-year-old. Yesterday she was a defiant Viet Cong ...
The photographer credited with taking the photo, then an AP staff member, won the Pulitzer Prize for it. But a former AP ...
Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam’s crack “Red Lightning” division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village ...
Kalamazoo — When Hattie and Jim Ford went to Vietnam in January, they hoped to learn more about the death of her first husband. Lt. Deane Taylor Jr. was fatally shot by the Viet Cong after his Army ...
WASHINGTON – As the air raid sirens and mortar blasts went off, medical evacuation crews dropped the wounded off at a hospital near the demilitarized zone. Young nurses worked around-the-clock to ...
Tucked away in their hammocks beneath the dripping rain-forest canopy, the Viet Cong guerrillas could hardly believe their ears. Out of the night sky came an ominous, warbling whine, like bagpipes ...
At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...
During the Cold War (1947-1991), the U.S. and Russia avoid nuclear annihilation by waging "proxy wars," supporting opposing sides in regional conflicts. Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet ...
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