“Soldiers had dragged a lot of the dead NVA to a central point in the LZ ... battle at Bird and tried to return on a trip back to Vietnam [Courtesy of Spencer Matteson] Matteson had blogged ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

Ten thousand NVA seized the heart of the city ... the task of nation building.” The American military could have rendered North Vietnam incapable of sustaining its offensive.

Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...

Within a year, he was in Vietnam, serving as an ammo tech with ... and as he did, he saw an NVA soldier nearby — with a rifle trained on his fellow Marine. Knowing what it would mean, Austin ...

It was also the year a series of photos of her sitting at an North Vietnamese Army anti-aircraft ... who visited North Vietnam to be taken to see Vietnamese military installations and when they ...

When his own riffle became damaged beyond use, he manhandled a riffle off an enemy NVA soldier and continued engaging enemy forces ferociously until dawn. Fitzmaurice, only relented to medical ...

The unit came under attack just before 5 a.m. May 7 from the North Vietnamese Army atop a mountain in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam near the Laotian border. Six American soldiers were killed in the ...

A list of aircrafts and big guns ⁠used by U.S. Forces followed by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ... workhorse aircraft for U.S. forces in Vietnam. Well adapted for jungle warfare ...

By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging ... The whole thing was etched in my mind”. “Soldiers had dragged a lot of the dead NVA to a central point in the LZ [landing zone],” recalls ...