Vietnam War - US Involvement, Conflict, Outcome: The United States began a campaign of sustained air strikes against the North that were code-named Rolling Thunder.
Force Total Strength Support Combat Arms US Forces 440,029 372,429 67,600 ARVN Not Avail Not Avail Not Avail NVA/VC 332,000 unknown unknownThe figures for relative strengths assume the following: On January 1, 1969 there were 110 battalions in Vietnam (98 Infantry, 3 tank, and 9 ...
1972 US Army Vietnam War Stability & Surpport Operations Part 2 41p 1968 US Army Vietnam Operations of Army forces in the field part one 48p 1968 US Army Vietnam Operations of Army forces in the field part three 52p 1968 US Army Vietnam Operations of Army forces in the field part two...
US Special Forces and Counterinsurgency in Vietnam will be of much interest to students of the Vietnam War, Special Forces operations, military innovation and strategic theory in general.doi:10.4324/9780203964941Christopher K. Ives
1989 US Invasion of Panama 1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, bu...
An American pilot who disappeared during a Vietnam War-era spy mission has been accounted for almost 60 years later, officials said Monday. John C.G. Kerr, originally from Florida, was 35 when he was reported missing in 1967. Kerr had been piloting an attack aircraft on a "solo night...
US Soldier Calley, Face of My Lai Massacre in Vietnam War, Dies at 80 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Former Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and his wife Mai Thi Hanh lay flower during the 50th anniversary of the My Lai massacre in My Lai village, Vietnam March 16, 20...
Vietnam Veteran III Corps 1970-1971 Cu Chi - Swam Loc, 25th DIV - 1st/5th Mech Infry - Co. C Brown, Jay -CM ARMY Vietnam Veteran III Corps 1971-1971 Long Binh; Phu Loi, HHT 3/17th Air CAV Bruhn, Randy W. (Tiny) -CM ARMY Vietnam Veteran I Corps 1968-1969 Camp Eagle, ...
By the time Eisenhower left office, open fighting had broken out between Diem’s forces and the so-called Viet Cong, communist insurgents in the South who were backed by North Vietnam. Each side employed brutal tactics, including torture and political assassinations. The Vietnam War was now...
Paris Peace Accord (Jan. 27, 1973): Signed by President Richard Nixon, it ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Fall of Saigon: The North Vietnamese Army took the south capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975, ending the war. The Gulf War ...