The 1st Air Cavalry Division entered the Vietnam War 50 years ago in 1965. The division’s colors and unit designations was transferred to the 11th Air Assault Division (Test), then at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in
The My Lai massacre was an attack on the Vietnamese village of My Lai during the Vietnam War, when hundreds of civilians were raped and murdered by U.S. troops.
Nothing can restore the real balance of this place, but hearts are heavy in many Americans over the terrible side of this war, and they do what they can to counter the actions of a few who do not fairly represent the typical Vietnam Combat Veteran. As horrific as that act was, there ...
Only it was a whole different war when I went back in January 1968. In Da Nang, the first thing that struck me was the whole airport was bombed out. It was a chaotic mess. The Tet Offensive took out Khe Sanh and Hue City, and the North Vietnamese were hitting other strategic ...
Later that day, roughly two miles away, another Task Force Barker unit, Bravo Company, similarly massacred 90 people in a village called My Khe 4. For me, as I am sure for most American soldiers who went on combat missions in Vietnam’s rural countryside, it quickly became clear that wh...
Vietnam for a holiday. Visiting new places an d trying something new can always.bring me much fun, so I flew there last month 1T The first day, she took me to the 30-kilometer?long My Khe Beach an d we swam in the se a and playef on the beach. After that, we rode a scooter...
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront the same moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacua...
Take a knee in the sweat soaked jungles of Vietnam. from Khe San to Saigon… Anywhere will do. REAL Americans died in all those jungles. There was no playbook that told them what was next, but they knew what flag they represented. When they came home, they were protested as well and...
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By 1968, it was clear that North Vietnam was amassing its forces aroundKhe Sanh, which was located just south of the demilitarized border of the North and South. In early 1968, the amassed communist forces attacked a large Marine Corps combat base there and what ensued was one of the lo...