Vietnam While the Marine Skyknight pilots were snooping along the seas of East Asia, and flying rings around Cuba, the US had become embroiled in the brutal civil war which followed the end of French control over Vietnam. Much the same as Korea, this war between two heavily militarized sta...
French rule ended, Vietnam divided The Diem regime and the Viet Cong The U.S. role grows The conflict deepens The Gulf of Tonkin The United States enters the war Firepower comes to naught Tet brings the war home De-escalation, negotiation, and Vietnamization ...
Speaking nearly a year to the day since ordering an invasion that has triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the depths of the Cold War, Putin said Russia would achieve its war aims and accused the West of trying to destroy Russia. Cautioning the United States that it was ...
Cold War US Tactics 1989 US Invasion of Panama United States of America vs Republic of Panama The construction of a short cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans was a pipe dream for much of the 19th century for both the British and Americans. If a canal existed, then trade would ...
Photo courtesy of Stan Swanigan via U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War As detailed byBaugher, 147011 entered the fleet in 1963 with the “Fighting Red Checkertails” ofFighter Squadron (VF) 24, first as NE-453, then as NP-441. She was lost 60 years ago today, 13 January 1965, while try...
“Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned,” said President Gerald Ford in 1975. “We, of course, are saddened indeed by the events in Indochina. But these ...
Then the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, plus the flow of aid from China and the Soviet Union to the Viet Minh, prompted Truman to reexamine Vietnam in a Cold War light. Fearing that Vietnam, too, would become a communist state, he sent over transport planes and jeeps, along ...
The Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, ID, has historic Warbirds, war planes & personal memorabilia from WWI, WWII, Vietnam & Korea on display.
- Marine Corps strength: 154,909 (0.05% of U.S. population) Marines reached another major integration milestone in 2019: For the first time, the Corps integrated a small platoon of female recruits into larger training exercises with their male counterparts. ...
- Marine Corps strength: 154,909 (0.05% of U.S. population) Marines reached another major integration milestone in 2019: For the first time, the Corps integrated a small platoon of female recruits into larger training exercises with their male counterparts. ...