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April 2024– “During our 3-month stay in Central Vietnam, we took a short trip out of the country. We brought our printede-visa, which was examined by the agent that checked us into our flight from Hong Kong back to Vietnam and again at immigration in Da Nang. Proof of onward trav...
This Day in History Video: What Happened on July 28U.S. Constitution 1976 One of the worst earthquakes in modern history destroys Chinese cityNatural Disasters & Environment 1932 Bonus Marchers evicted by U.S. ArmyGreat Depression 1965 President Johnson announces more troops to VietnamVietnam War...
serves as both a law enforcement agency and a military force. When a war is declared the Coast Guard can become part of the Navy. The Coast Guard has been deployed to war zones during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the first and second Iraq wars....
–Has anything like this happened before? The scale and speed of this airlift are unprecedented, but the US has a history of taking in refugees from overseas conflicts. The US airlifted about 7,000 people with the fall of Saigon in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War and ultimately took...
Consider the power-lyrics of Vietnam-era anti-war works by such groups as Buffalo Springfield or as found in Joan Baez’s “Where Are You Now, My Son?” (“Yours was the righteous gun/where are you now, my son?”). Why are we incapable of this? Where are the artists of impact ...
US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure. See more events Famous birthdays 1958 Simon Le Bon, lead singer of the band Duran Duran and Arcadia. See more birthdays What’s Your Vietnam War...
Visiting Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it’s also still known, is a chance to experience modern Vietnam in all its glory. Whether you’re wandering through markets amid a cacophony of trading calls or learning about Vietnam’s past in one of the museums, there’s plenty to do in ...
Vietnam's Deadliest Sniper Carlos Hathcock Born May 20, 1942 d. 1999 American soldier. Regarded as the deadliest sniper of the Vietnam War. He has 93 confirmed kills and an estimated 300-400 total kills. For one of his most famous kills, he was sent to kill the enemy sniper known as...
the total collapse of Afghanistan's government and its defeat by the Taliban last month -- with televised scenes of the helicopter evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabulmirroring the 1975 evacuationof the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam -- have reinforced a sense of anger...