More than 2.7 million Americans served during the Vietnam War. Around 15,000 of them came from North Dakota. For many, the ...

American soldiers in Vietnam communicated using so much slang and shorthand that it almost seems like its own English dialect ...

In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control. April ...

during the Vietnam War, such as the ambush scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994), starring Tom Hanks, and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He covers the public ...

The images of the fall of Saigon, on April 30th 1975, are indelible. A helicopter takes off from the roof of the United States embassy, leaving behind a long line of would-be evacuees. Victorious ...

The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... from the Americans to ambush patrols.

His father and grandfather had served in war, so that's what ... within Delta Company, the ambush of October 17 came just three months after he arrived in Vietnam, and what mattered on that ...

Governor Gavin Newsom posthumously pardons Vietnam War veteran Richard "Butch" Penry of Petaluma. He had received the Medal ...

The Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975 ... when he was severely injured during a night ambush patrol. The ambush mission was typical of the operations undertaken by U.S. forces during ...

BOURNE — Seventy people stood at the rostrum at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne on Monday to commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Most of those in attendance were ...