It effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with helicopter flights taking staff and dependants from the roof of the US Embassy in ...

To bolster its beleaguered Army of the Republic of Vietnam ally, the U.S. military sent airpower assets in force. As I’ve ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

to pick up 591 American prisoners of war captured by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Called Operation Homecoming, the Air Force shuttled the former POWs first to Clark ...

These US and Vietnamese soldiers were killed while fighting the Viet Cong near Saigon. In January 1968, the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South ...

A list of aircrafts and big guns ⁠used by U.S. Forces followed by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. The Bell UH-1 helicopter, popularly known as the "Huey," was the workhorse aircraft ...

The Viet Cong also tried to gain support ... the anxieties and horrors of fighting in Vietnam Desertion Huge numbers of soldiers ran away from the army Drafted soldiers were mostly young men ...