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New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades ...
While a child in wartime Vietnam, Anh Duong vowed to one day help the soldiers who saved her. She and her Navy team helped ...
The M151 MUTT saw limited combat use in Vietnam, but it was commonly used inside American military installations and on city streets in support roles.
In the early morning of April 30, 1975, the only U.S. military service members who remained in Vietnam were several dozen Marines on the ground in Saigon. They were waiting to get out themselves.
It’s one of the few memorials in the country to salute the South Vietnamese soldiers who fought side-by-side with American soldiers. Two bronze statues stand guard over the memorial, one an ...
The battle at Firebase Bird. By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging for more than a decade, and US involvement had grown from a smattering of military advisers and special forces to a ...
Of the 58,220 U.S. military service members who died in Vietnam, more than 1,300 were from Massachusetts. These are the stories of the men who were among the first and last to die on Vietnam soil.
It grew into a war that killed almost 60,000 American soldiers and over 3m Vietnamese civilians and soldiers. America’s performance in the two world wars allowed the country to think of itself ...
Once dubbed “napalm girl,” she bears the physical and psychological scars of the war that nearly took her life. Her greatest wish today? To comfort the pilot who dropped the bomb.
The March 28 editorial “Vietnam vets still deserve thanks, 50 years later” noted the March 29, 2025, 50th anniversary of the official end of American military involvement in the Viet Nam War.
During and after the Vietnam War, an estimated 100,000 so-called Amerasian children were born — kids of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
The US soldiers returning to Vietnam in search of mass graves. As part of the healing process, American veterans work with their former enemies to locate the burial sites of their missing comrades ...