The need for new blood in South Viet Nam’s grim war is best argued by the reluctance with which old blood is shed. Last week, as if to confirm the pressing reasons behind Washington’s decision to ...

As U.S. air strikes to the North mounted in fury last week, the Viet Cong were moving closer and closer to control of the whole top third of South Viet Nam. An atmosphere of siege prevailed in Hue, ...

As a close air support warplane, the AC-47 was an essential lifeline in the often close quarter combat of the Vietnam War. Originally developed in the 1930s, the C-47 Skytrain was the military variant ...

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 ...

Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey in Vietnam for the Armed Forces Network, was beloved by many of the American troops who served in Vietnam. (Air Force) Adrian Cronauer, a legend of the Vietnam War, and ...

When South Vietnam fell to North Vietnamese forces in 1975, an estimated 125,000 Vietnamese refugees fled to the United States to avoid retribution at the hands of the North Vietnamese. Among those ...

Decades later, the legacy of Agent Orange isn't just illnesses, birth defects and continued deforestation in Vietnam. It's also the question of the United States' legal liability for its use, how to ...

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 ...