(NEXSTAR) – April 30th marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In numbers, the toll of the war was staggering. Of the over 2.7 million Americans who fought in the war, ...
How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam - including nearly 3 ...
Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...
In 1988, 65 soldiers lost in the Vietnam War made the journey home. The Berks County natives who died or went missing overseas were carried in spirit by the Last Patrol. That was the name of the ...