and between 1-3 million Vietnamese were killed in the war. On Christmas of 1966, a declared truce would suspend the carnage for 30 hours. For American soldiers holed up at Firebase Bird – a ...

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

Troyer told his family that he didn't "feel like marchin' in any protest march against Vietnam, but this war is worthless." The majority of American soldiers never witnessed large-scale battles ...

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese veterans and their families are still battling political and logistical ...

“Flat-out, straight-up American hero, and we owe you ... Service Cross for his heroics that day. Another soldier who fought in Vietnam also received the Medal of Honor on Friday — Capt.

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

In the dark hours Wednesday morning as the sun slowly rose over the horizon in Waimanalo, soldiers from the 25th Infantry ...

He told the American soldiers they were about to "meet the Vietnamese people." American Film Foundation Despite not knowing exactly what lay ahead, the men -- a dozen of whom had been in isolation ...

The new Vietnam War Memorial in Dunwoody, Georgia, honors both American soldiers and South Vietnamese soldiers who fought ...

Search and Destory From 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were ...

"Charlie Johnson -- soldier, American citizen -- was a brother ... Long An province along infiltration routes used by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong from sanctuaries in Cambodia.