General Bruce Palmer Jr., who was a three star corps level commander in Vietnam, said; “We didn’t understand the Vietnamese or the situation, or what kind of war it was. By the time we found out, it was too late.” The US sent units to Vietnam to stay but the soldiers only ...
In one of the apartment buildings in the 4000 block of San Jacinto there was a Vietnamese woman who had some unspecified mental health problems that were manifested in part by her yelling and sometimes fighting with neighbors. She had a dream one night that her apartment was filled with Budd...
No conflict, however, is more closely associated with napalm than the Vietnam War. The dense jungles of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia provided excellent cover for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong troops, frustrating American and South Vietnamese efforts to locate and destroy enemy forces. Nap...
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Soldiers with Rifles South Korea has a dark relationship with martial law, and surprisingly, I have played a part in that history. Let’s go back to 1980. I was a low-level editor on a very small magazine calledCalifornia Good Life,which was run, amazingly enough, from some guy’s apar...
Hundreds of South Vietnamese civilians and soldiers were injured as a result, but the attack was ultimately stopped in October of that year by South Vietnamese soldiers and U.S. advisers. [Pictured: Helicopters of the U.S. 229th Aviation Battalion, 3rd Brigade, First Air Cavalry Division,...
“Joe, which is what his friends called him, and I shared a cell in C-Hall during 1965-66,” recalls former inmate Frank Driscoll. “We worked on the fifth floor of the prison hospital, which is to say the psych ward. … By the time we were cellies, Joe had straightened up his ...
More About This Book Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam Elizabeth Partridge Learn more about America's war in Vietnam through the experiences of eight people who were there - six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee. From dense jungles and te...
"Car Burg" -- this was called in by a woman who also carries a golf club with her to knock it loose."slush turtles" -- turtles? I don't see it. "fender burgs" -- slightly more descriptive. "snow boogers" or "tire snot" -- ties in with the runny noses we all get from the...