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The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fro...
The Vietnam War kill ratios were calculated using the total number of U.S. aircraft lost in air-to-air combat, regardless of whether or not they were fighter planes. That meant the count of downed aircraft includes the unarmed RF-101, a reconnaissance jet; the A-1E Skyraider, a piston...
2. The Sinking of the USNS Card - This World War II aircraft carrier was later used as a transport for American military cargo. On May 2, 1964, it was moored in a heavily defended harbor in the Saigon River. Two VC commandos crawled down a sewer pipe and attached explosives to the ...
In addition to a fleet of helicopters and cargo planes that could resupply and reinforce the besieged Marines, they could rely on the heavy bombing capacity of the B-52 fighter planes, which dropped close to 100,000 explosives on the hills surrounding Khe Sanh over the course of the battle...
As the Communist forces closed in, a number of lower-level American personnel began “black ops” to help their South Vietnamese friends escape the country by stowing them on cargo planes bound for the Philippines. Soon enough, the airport was being bombarded and even that was not an option...
Hanoi Hannah:the Tokyo Rose of the Vietnam war. Hard Truck / Gun Truck:provides support to convoys traveling through known hostile territory Heads:Group identified as dopers – those who used drugs (heroin, marijuana, etc,) Headman:the boss man of a local community. His word is usually law...
During the final days of the Vietnam War and before the United States evacuated its own people, it first planned to transport the Vietnamese children away from the war-torn areas of Saigon in what was called Operation Babylift. What followed next were criticisms of the government’s actions...
The planes, the ammunition depots, and ships. Yes-this is the mighty force of his mine, he who fought day in-day out there - in the front lines, you stood. And from the bullet splattered sound of your battles, Nguyen Van Be, rose the great roar of your explosion. An explosion that...
Danang was the main base for the American Navy during the war. Looking out toward the South China Sea I sat to listen to the war stories of a fellow traveler. Jack spoke of the ships, planes, and choppers; of ambushes, patrol, and rescue missions. He was not a “regular,” just a...