His unit was one of the first "main force" squadrons of Viet Cong sent from the north, and the average age of its soldiers was 35. These regular units, who operated throughout South Vietnam, ...

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 ...

For nearly a month the Viet Cong “main force” has been lying low, ... The Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north.

There are an estimated 30,000 “hard hat” or main-force Viet Cong soldiers and some 50,000 local guerrillas and political agents. No North Vietnamese regulars operate in the Delta, ...

Cessna will always be known as a general aviation company. But Cessna has in fact crafted a formidable and proven wartime ...

Barker’s task force had twice in February 1968 conducted operations in the Son My area — dubbed Pinkville by the U.S. military — in a hunt for members of the beleaguered 48th Viet Cong Local ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Feb. 10, 1966. It is republished unedited in its original form. BONG SON, Vietnam — They fly at the enemy in plastic bubbles ...

To draw some post-Vietnam examples, even in America’s biggest airpower triumphs—from the 1991 Persian Gulf War, known as Desert Storm, to Operation Allied Force (the 1999 Kosovo campaign) and ...

Thousands of Vietnam vets who returned home unaware that they had been exposed to the same toxic dioxin that was meant to combat their enemies. Now, decades later, Agent Orange is catching up with ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 1968 (UPI) - President Johnson Friday termed the Viet Cong attacks on major South Vietnamese cities "a complete failure" militarily and said they would force no change in ...

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1968, file photo, South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the National Police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also ...

His unit was one of the first "main force" squadrons of Viet Cong sent from the north, and the average age of its soldiers was 35. These regular units, who operated throughout South Vietnam, ...