WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war ...

In 1966, U.S. Navy Crusader pilots entered the skies of Vietnam knowing every mission could end in disaster. Facing swarms of MiG-17s and MiG-21s, Commander Richard Bellinger and VF-162 fought ...

On 21 June 1966, a rescue mission over Vietnam turned into a fierce aerial showdown between the nimble MiG-17 and the ...

The upcoming Vietnam War drama "The Last Full Measure" tells the story of Airman 1st Class William Pitsenbarger's heroic courage in the jungles of Vietnam in 1966, and the decades-long fight by his ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Nuclear weapons still engender deep contradictions. The most powerful weapons ever devised serve no other purpose but to prevent their use by others. By February 1966 ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Saigon, January 1966: A basket and a few feet of sidewalk make up this elderly woman’s shop as she sells strawberries in downtown Saigon. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the Vietnam War?