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Vietnam War - Fall, Saigon, US Withdrawal: In early March the North Vietnamese launched the first phase of what was expected to be a two-year offensive to secure South Vietnam. As it happened, the South's government and army collapsed in less than two mo
large areas of South Vietnam had been designated as “free-fire zones,” from which all innocent civilians were supposed to have evacuated and only enemy remained. Heavy bombing by B-52 aircraft or shelling made these zones uninhabitable, ...
Civilian women working in war zones may be vulnerable to posttraumatic stress reactions for decades. Some four decades since the Vietnam war, little is understood of how non-national civilian women have made sense of their experiences both in a war zone and returning to a hostile society and ...
Philip Caputo, another US marine accused of killing innocent civilians, wrote later that it was the nature of the war that resulted in so many war-crimes being committed: "In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in...
Lessons Learned: The Vietnam War has been studied extensively as a case study of the limitations of military power and the importance of understanding local dynamics in conflict zones. It has also served as a reminder of the human cost of war and the need for diplomatic solutions to internatio...
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 ...
Hoi Trinh was still a schoolboy in the turbulent postwar years when he and his schoolteacher parents, both Vietnamese, were uprooted in Saigon and, joining an exodus of two million southerners, were forced into one of the "new economic zones" to be farmers. He remembers taunting Amerasians...
After the Geneva Agreements had dividedVietnaminto northern and southern zones in 1954, Tho cooperated with the southernregimeofNgo Dinh Diemuntil he was arrested for advocating nationwide elections on reunification. Except for a short interval in 1958, Tho remained in prison from 1954 to 1961, wh...
B-52 bombers target suspected communist base camps and supply zones in Cambodia. The bombings are kept under wraps by Nixon and his administration since Cambodia is officially neutral in the war, although The New York Times would reveal the operation on May 9, 1969. • April-June 1970: U...