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...
Still covered by Puff and the Marine UH-1E’s, Macauley then spiraled up out of the zone and headed for Da Nang. It was a spectacular finale to a long night. LCpl Everett was awarded the Silver Star for his corageous actions. Soon after this on another black night, an HMM-263 ...
Christinas Eve 1970 was just another day and night at most of the fire bases throughout Vietnam. Fire Base Jupiter, like many fire bases, was isolated, hot, sticky, itchy, smelly, wet and muddy in monsoon seasons and with...
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These students were raised by cold-war inspired curriculum where they were taught that America was the best country and that no other country could even compare. “As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated by events too troubling to dismiss” (301). As America was losing wars both ...
This zone of Vietnam has... View More Info Bangkok Thailand Take in pleasure with culinary trip to Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market is a charming and relatively less touristy floating market located in the Taling Chan district of Bangkok, Thailand. One of ...
On maps, the town of Dinh Quan was part of War Zone D, a lethal communist stronghold of scruffy jungle and stately rubber plantations along National Highway 20, about 80 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. A quarter-century later, a group of middle-age American evangelica...
Helicopters in the Vietnam War The New Cavalry During the Vietnam War, the United States relied on the helicopter as never before. The helicopter’s role in combat expanded enormously in this conflict as thousands of “choppers” rapidly transported personnel throughout the war zone. Heavily arme...
Vietnam War A South African Korean War hero … killed in the Vietnam War Posted by Peter Dickens 21 What! South Africa never took part in the Vietnam War, true – but some South Africans did, and two of them lost their lives. Of the two South Africans sacrificed in this rather ...
After defeat of French at Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Agreements (July) provide for withdrawal of French and Vietminh to either side of demarcation zone (DMZ) pending reunification elections, which are never held. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy (from 1954 onward) send civilian advisers and, later,...