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Annapolis, while on station off the coast of Vietnam did drop anchor every 10–15 days for a few hours outside Cam Ranh Bay to receive mail and transfer priority crew. During those brief stops, Navy swift boats would come alongside to receive much appreciated ice cream in 3-gallon containe...
The packed room, which overflowed with activists from both sides bearing banners, chanting slogans, challenging speakers and city officials as they made their comments, laid bare stark divisions over this issue within the South Asian diaspora. A majority of those present in council chambers were sup...
companies, under the 75thInfantry Regiment. The Ranger companies deactivated as their parent divisions rotated home from Vietnam. On June 9, 1972, Sgt. Elvis Weldon Osborne Jr. and Cpl. Jeffrey Alan Maurer were the last two U.S. soldiers to be killed in Vietnam; they were also Army ...
The United States Army grew again during theVietnam Warreaching 1,460,000 in the late 1960s. Between 1961 and 1973 over 56,800 were killed and another 153,300 were seriously wounded. With the withdrawal from Vietnam the army was returned to volunteer status....
involvement in the Vietnam War remained fairly limited. But that changed in August 1964, when the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident prompted Congress to grant expansive war-making powers to newly installed President Lyndon B. Johnson. Recognizing that the South Vietnamese government and army were...
Vietnam was a war fought to inflict maximum attrition by the skillful application of massed firepower.5 As the nation began its disengagement from Vietnam, the Army's focus returned to Europe. In the NATO arena, the United States found a revitalized Warsaw Pact in the process of unprecedented...
in Hanoi. The insurgency was called the National Liberation Front (PLF); however, its soldiers and operatives became more commonly known by their opponents as the Viet Cong (VC), short for Vietnamese Communists. The VC were often supplemented by units of the People’s Army of Vietnam (...