People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...

America’s attempts at bombing an adversary into submission usually fail. The history of the Vietnam War provides perspective.

1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...

Within the U.S. government, Americans who believed that republicanism required fertile cultural soil clashed with those who ...

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

This video is no longer available. Wednesday marks 50 years since North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. For decades, a ...

Kennedy’s decision to send 400 Green Berets to Vietnam began as a quiet advisory mission, but it helped open the door to America’s deeper war in Southeast Asia and gave Special Forces one of its ...

Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese ...

And every month or so, somewhere in the rotation, a can of sardines showed up at whatever firebase Pvt. Mike Vining was ...