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

Frequently, and this may be an uncomfortable truth for many, the documentary works best when we are thrown into the action headfirst: as the Americans arrive on Vietnam’s sunny shores at the start of ...

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

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 ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Allen Hoe showed soldiers a tattered old flag Wednesday that he and fellow ...

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.

Ignoring the barrage of ordnance, he dragged a soldier to a position ... himself to helping fellow Vietnam veterans, heading the Girard Chapter of Disabled American Veterans Post 3767.

In “The War on Warriors,” published last year, the nominee to head the Pentagon lashes out at “social justice saboteurs” and ...