Something was seriously wrong with Bobby Joe Keesee well before the soldier tried to defect to Cuba and North Vietnam. Although it might not have seemed like it when he…
The 1965 Battle of Ia Drang saw the first major engagement between the United States Army and the People’s Army of North Vietnam (PAVN). The intense, four-day battle in South…
On Aug. 3, 1966, U.S. Marines launched Operation Prairie against three battalions of North Vietnamese just south of the Demilitarized Zone. Operation Prairie followed closely on the heels of Operation…
Imagine approaching an enemy soldier on the battlefield. They are likely wielding a weapon, perhaps in a stance ready to attack. Even yelling or saying something threatening. In this scenario,…
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…
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…
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…
On Dec. 8, 1966, the International Red Cross announced that North Vietnam had rejected President Lyndon B. Johnson’s prisoner exchange proposal. Members of the United States armed forces were held…
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…
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.…