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 ...

Was the "Death Card" in Apocalypse Now real? Discover what the Ace of Spades actually meant to soldiers in Vietnam and how it ...

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 ...

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.

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Editor's note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

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 ...