After three months of explosive ordnance and heavy equipment training by the U.S. Army, 18-year-old Roger Thompson arrived ...
WORCESTER — As a title, “The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975)“ is so ...
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How to Survive the Vietnam War

So it is the mid-1960s and you are a raw recruit who has just arrived in Vietnam. The country is involved in a bloody and intense civil war, so how do you survive this experience?
Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling ...
AIKEN — During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Southeast Asia was the site of the longest armed conflict in the history of the American military. USC Aiken is documenting the experiences of some of those ...
The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the ...
In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military. By James Santel James Santel is a ...
ATHENS — The Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 511 in Athens is looking to raise funds for war memorials honoring veterans of World War I, World War II and the ...
Waiting until age 70 to claim Social Security gets you a lot more money. Here’s why so few people do it. What happens if you drink from a plastic water bottle left in a hot car Justice Sotomayor ...
** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In May 1968, 1st/Lt. Robin ...
Nederland, Colorado — During the height of the Vietnam War, being stationed at U.S. Marine outpost Con Thien was like a death sentence. "It just seemed like a matter of time for everybody," retired ...
PORTAGE, Mich. — Residents of Portage may have noticed a distinctive sound overhead Saturday as a UH-1 Huey 'Greyhound' helicopter flew overhead. The helicopter is widely recognized as the iconic ...