Tag Archives: Vietnam War 1 March 1972 March 1, 2025Aviation432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 66-7463, Aerial Combat, Disco, F-4D-29-MC, Falcon 54, Joe Kittinger, Joseph William Kittinger II, Leigh A. Hodgdon, Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star, McDonnell F...
the field medic shows little concern — Sgt. Prock orders me to have doctors examine my leg — the doctor at LZ Two Bits decided the wound was bad enough to send me to the hospital at Qui Nhon — despite many seriously wounded soldiers there, I am sent to the front of the line —...
In the late 1970s, with the Vietnam War now fully in America’s rear view and respect for its participants markedly low in the public sphere, infantry veteran Jan Scruggs and others like him looked around and saw a nation that had already let the stories of Korean War soldiers and their ...
soldiers and left to fend for themselves in a world that has no place for them. Despite this jarring narrative structure, Vietnamerica coheres as a transnational migration story because of...Michel Peter Smith
000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war. In 1982 theVietnam Veterans Memorialwas dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war. Over the following years, additions to the list...
“Vietnam was a lost war, and it was the first major lost war abroad in American history,” Lembcke says. “You don’t have parades for soldiers coming home from a war they lost.” Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Vietnam veterans hold a silent march down Pennsylvania Avenue past the White...
FOR FRONT-LINE SOLDIERSWAR HAD BITTER FLAVOR Go Force Buildup Go FORD ADMIN NATL SECURITY STUDY& MEMO ON THE VIETNAM WAR Go FOREIGN SERVICE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: ISSUE REGULATIONS Go Forgotten History Go Forrestal Fire Go Fort Irwin To Vietnam Go FOUND: What To Do With Found Military Items Go Fr...
The introduction of football into Vietnam can be traced back to 1896, during the era of colonial French Cochinchina in the South. At first, the sport was only played among French civil servants, merchants, and soldiers. The French encouraged natives to play football and other introduced sports...
In the early days of the war it took six months to travel from North Vietnam to Saigon on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But the more people who travelled along the route the easier it became. By 1970, fit and experienced soldiers could make the journey in six weeks. From the air the Ho ...
he adds, “today, i wouldn’t do that movie. i would do a movie about the american soldiers as liberators, because that’s what they are now.” ironically, voight is bookended by spikings, who, although he too is still proud of the deer hunter, which he considers an anti-war movie...