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a 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry position about a mile from the Vietnamese town of Ap Bau Bang. Troop A included six tanks and twenty M-113 armored personnel carriers. They set up a 360 defensive perimeter around the fire base, and that night at least two battalions of the...
Korean WarDiplomatic & consular servicesTruces & cease firesMilitary personnelSpecial forcesThe official armistice agreement limited heavy weapons-machine guns, mortars, artillery and tanks-but each force kept the smaller stuff hidden up front and the bigger armaments just behind the boundary area. When...
However, after the Civil War, the US struggled to learn that the purpose of a peacetime army is to prepare for war.\nWhen war did arrive, it arrived with a vengeance, gutting the trenches of the Great War with effective innovations: tanks, planes, machine guns, and poison gas. The US...
Native American sculptor Michael Naranjo lost his sight during the Vietnam war. He created a 17 foot sculpture by touch. Farm to Fame bybob.dotson|Apr 7, 2025|Blog,Hiding in History's Shadow Chuck Taylor waved at a hawk strafing the wheat field in front of him. “There is beauty every...
Blackhawks are the service’s standard medium transport helicopter—sleeker, twin-engine successors to the Hueys used in the Vietnam War. They can carry 11 soldiers or 4.5 tons of underslung cargo, and are adaptable to diverse missions (including by adding wing stubs to carry weapons). ...
First off, the Vietnam War was marked by the massive use of weapons of the air mainly by the United States troops. The United States air force, with the help of other South Vietnamese allies, carried out bombing air missions over the territories of North and South Vietnam as well as ...
Returned home and stayed in the reserves, served in Korea and Vietnam as a military intelligence NCO. Incidentally, while he was in Korea, his son was fighting to hold the Pusan Perimeter with his brother Soldiers. Died of stomach cancer in 1967, An American patriot to his core. ...
Prominent for his role in the shaping of US foreign policy in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, he was a staunch anti-communist, noted for a belief in the efficacy of capitalism and free enterprise, strongly supporting US involvement in the Vietnam War. Rostow is known for his book The ...
I doubt that you have an accurate appraisal of the situation abroad. There are certainly soldiers with a human heart who want to do the best in a difficult situation. But the damage the US forces have caused in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and untold more countries, is huge. There was no...