SOUTH from the twin city of Saigon-Cholon, Route 4 runs like a ribbon of asphalt through the rice and vegetable lands of the Mekong delta. It is the trunk road south from the capital to the granary of ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The sucessful attack was a shock in Washington. However, the military managed to raise and salvage the ship. It was shortly after midnight when two Viet Cong ...

In the 1960s, the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) – an old World War II escort aircraft carrier performing supply-carrying duties at the time – was sunk after 180 pounds of explosives detonated at the ship’s ...

Roger Donlon joined the U.S. Army’s Green Berets in 1963 and was sent to Vietnam long before the majority of folks back home realized that we were getting involved in the conflict in Southeast Asia.

On the night of January 29, 1968, I was in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. ‘Still (?),’ the city remained calm. The so-called ‘Tet Offensive,’ in which the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ...

The heartland of South Viet Nam is not the barren highlands and bamboo valleys north of Saigon, where U.S. forces have fought the war’s fiercest battles, but the swampy southern tip that is sluiced by ...