It's the night of February 10th, 1970, and Viet Cong soldiers are hiding deep within the Hau Niga Province in South Vietnam. Suddenly, funeral music and shrill whines are heard blasting from the U ...

Vietnam has been named among the top 25 countries in the world and among the top 14 countries in Asia for shortest average population.

Students in Vietnam face outrage over a university's minimum height requirement, limiting opportunities despite academic achievements.

For weeks, advance troops of the newest U.S. unit to arrive in Viet Nam had been secretly at work on a clearing just north of An Khe on Route 19, deep in the Viet Cong-infested highlands. Using ...

The greatest Communist folk hero to emerge from the Viet Nam war is a skinny teen-ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be's death is recorded ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese launched an ...

As a first lieutenant in the Vietnam War, Richard J. Kelley would not ask his soldiers to do anything he wouldn’t do. He would, in fact, do anything to protect ...

Consequently, American troops fighting in “The ‘Nam” had to be ready for Viet Cong guerrilla ambushes or light infantry tactics as practiced by the PAVN — or sometimes both at once, since ...

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to provide viewers with an assessment of the war’s progress. His one-hour special report aired on Feb. 27, 1968. (Video: Victoria Walker/The ...

Vietnamese are the fourth tallest people in Southeast Asia, only after Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, thanks to improvements in maternal and child nutrition, heard a workshop held by the Ministry ...

South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, ...

A good example of how effectively the unit works was demonstrated at Pleiku when an armed Huey went down in Viet Cong territory. When word got back to the camp, a platoon was scrambled and in ...