When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether ...
Army veteran C.W. Bowman volunteered for a job most would turn down during the Vietnam War. Bowman discussed his experiences ...
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Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC, and ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.
Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam’s crack “Red Lightning” division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village ...
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The life of George Bracey Jr. always felt like one battle after another. There were many theaters of war, many points in Bracey’s path. The enemy was always changing — the bartender Bracey whacked ...
“I wanted to be a hero,” Bill Broyles recalled in a recent interview about why he volunteered to go to Vietnam. These days, Broyles is best known for creating “China Beach,” co-writing “Apollo 13” and ...