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 ...
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The nastiest marines ever sent into the caves of hell
After landing on the jagged Batangan Peninsula, the US Marines inched closer than ever to wiping out the 1st Viet Cong ...
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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 ...
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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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Lessons from Vietnam on illegal orders and rules of engagement
The Posse Comitatus Act forbids the use of the military in law enforcement. The War Powers Resolution, passed to limit ...
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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