We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of ...

This is a guest post from Bryant Jordan, colleague of mine at Military.com who served with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, 1970-71. A Vietnamese Vietnam Vet This past Memorial Day marked the 50th ...

Australian citizens offered little opposition to their country’s early involvement in the Vietnam War. Opposition came from groups like Youth Campaign Against Conscription (YCAC), founded in 1964, and ...

Major General John A.B. Dillard, Jr. The last time an Army general was killed in combat overseas, Richard Nixon was in the White House and the Vietnam War was still ­raging. It was May 12, 1970, when ...

Cu Chi, Vietnam, Aug. 31, 1970: Spec. Cecil Bean of the 3rd Squadron; 4th Cavalry Regiment reads an Aug. 31, 1970, Pacific Stars and Stripes, Vietnam edition. The Texas state flag can be seen flying ...

Having had the opportunity to see a screening of a part of Ken Burns’ film on the Vietnam War earlier this year, Fred Judkins had this warning for any veteran of that war with post-traumatic stress ...

In 1970, five years after the troop buildup in the Vietnam War began, American servicemen were still being drafted and shipped to war at the rate of about 12 planeloads a week. At the time, the entire ...

A security guard in Ho Chi Minh City, which marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon this spring. UMass Thursday is holding a panel looking at the war's legacy to mark the anniversary.