Armed with a 20mm cannon and air-to-air missiles ... A favored support gun, the 105mm howitzer used in Vietnam had seen action in World War II. Modified to improve field mobility, the guns ...
However, Vietnam, another piece on the Cold War chessboard, would be entirely different. In the 20 years after the Korean War, Vietnam's jungle terrain posed new and unique challenges to military ...
More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...
The Vietnam War is one of the most dramatised conflicts of the 20th century, second only to World War II in terms of cinematic representations and pop-cultural scrutiny. The legacies of the ...
Celebrated every March 29, Vietnam Veterans Day is set aside as a day for Americans to honor the courage and sacrifice of those who served in the Vietnam War. At Military.com, we know that the ...
along with others who are unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War,” the DPAA said. “A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.” Forrester will finally be ...
You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. After the international quagmire that was the Vietnam War, movies were no longer all fun and games. The glossy, Hollywood spectacle of ...
The remains of a Vietnam War pilot were identified a half century after his plane vanished, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Wednesday in a statement. U.S. Marine Corps Capt.
The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two. However, bombing was highly inaccurate due to the jungle ...
International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how ...
In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...
Our Vietnam War tells the story of Australia's involvement in the words of the men who were sent to fight; the battles, the protests, returning and the long shadow the war cast on the people whose ...