A Vietnam War veteran took the podium at Fort Snelling National Cemetery on Monday to offer his reflection 50 years after the ...

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...

THE VIETNAM WAR The Landmark Documentary Event by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Returns Thursday, May 29 at 9:00 pm Episode Ten: “The Weight of Memory” (March 1973 – Onward)... Read More ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 6 (UPI ... advisers embedded with South Vietnamese troops, but hiding their growing involvement from the media. "[Kennedy] didn't say that they were reinforcing ...

Kennedy increased the number of advisors by 16,000 but like his predecessor, did not send American troops to Vietnam. After his assassination, his successor, Johnson publicly vowed to avoid the ...

Kennedy had just become president ... the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, destroyed many more villages than American troops destroyed. It was not unusual for them to string ...

This fear prompted Kennedy to send more U.S. troops to Vietnam, further establishing America’s role in the war despite protests back at home against it. Infighting between the Viet Cong ...

Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops to Vietnam in the belief that abandoning one ally would cause other alliances to crumble. Subsequent events would prove them right.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach ...

“South Vietnam was essentially created at that point,” Frye said. “And they had to almost immediately start building up a defense network, a military.” The Kennedy Administration gave them ...

Despite Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson all subscribing ... Though more than two-thirds of American troops deployed in Vietnam were volunteers, roughly 1.9 million U.S. draftees ...