Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...
Cong Caphe is a large Vietnamese café chain. Its trademark is a khaki-green exterior and waiters and waitresses in Viet Cong outfits. Carola Frentzen/dpa Vietnam knows its coffee. After all this ...
Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...
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5 Million Candlepower and a Massive Bullseye: Vietnam’s Cargo Jet Built to Fight at Night
During the Vietnam War, the C-123 Provider was adapted into an experimental night fighter under Operation Shed Light to ...
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The Viet Cong Attack That Almost Erased America’s Biggest Airbase
At 3:00am on January 31, 1968, Bien Hoa Air Base — home to more than 500 U.S. aircraft — came under a sudden, devastating assault. Mortar blasts shook the ground as Lt Fred Abrams sprinted for cover ...
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 attack ...
Armed with a three-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo stick with a slit cut on one end, a 14-inch World War II Japanese bayonet, and a silenced .38 Special revolver pistol, Nicholas “Nick” Sanza was deep ...
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Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam’s crack “Red Lightning” division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village ...
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