The Vietnam war. Twenty years of vicious combat in the white-hot jungles of a country most Americans knew nothing about.In 1966, WRGB news anchor Ernie Tetrault ...

every major army unit in Vietnam.” Telford Taylor, a retired brigadier general and former Nuremberg prosecutor, daringly argued in 1971 for war crimes tribunals that would try American officers ...

John Wayne's Vietnam War film The Green Berets was backed by the government, portraying a very narrow view of the ...

Contrast this with, say, World War II, where two fighter pilots ... Ritchie is also the only American ace of Vietnam to attain general officer rank (the equivalent of flag officer rank in the ...

April 13: Terry Allen Jr. is born, the only son of Major General Terry Allen ... becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War. Following a breakdown in negotiations, Ho Chi Minh's ...

The new Vietnam War Memorial in Dunwoody, Georgia, honors both American soldiers and South ... included notable speakers such ...

Search and Destory From 1965, the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were ...