Why the North Vietnamese feared South Korean Marines
There’s no army on earth more anti-Communist than that of South Korea. When your closest neighbor and mortal enemy is North Korea, there’s just no other way. South Korea, also…
Today in military history: North Vietnam releases US POWs
On Feb. 12, 1973, North Vietnam began to release U.S. prisoners of war. Throughout the Vietnam War, the United States was concerned with the return of POWs and accounting for…
This is why the North Vietnamese were so deadly in jungle combat
Ground combat in the Vietnam War was a lot more than random ambushes in heavy jungle and the Air Force bombing the hell out of jungle canopies. At places like…
A North Vietnamese soldier hid in the jungle for 40 years
In 1972, Ho Van Thanh was a soldier stationed near his hometown in North Vietnam. After American bombs hit his home and killed his mother and two sons, he grabbed his one-year-old son and ran off into the jungle. He stayed put there, found by neithe…
Regaining the sense of pride: Saigon falls and the Vietnam War ends
The date was April 23, 1975, the war in Vietnam was winding down and the world was waiting to see what America would choose to do. President Ford gave a speech to the people from Tulane University. During that speech he told the citizens of the U.S.…
How this Army vet clears unexploded ordnance in Vietnam
The United States dropped more than seven million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1957 and 1975, more than twice what it dropped on Europe and Asia during all of World War II. That’s a lot of ordnance. This doesn’t take into a…