I had the opportunity to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, which are just outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tunnel network was started in the late 1940s and used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

The shocked looks on the faces of the four Viet Cong soldiers in the moments before one of them shot and severely wounded him in Vietnam remain vividly clear in John Logan’s mind 56 years later. The ...

It's the night of February 10th, 1970, and Viet Cong soldiers are hiding deep within the Hau Niga Province in South Vietnam. Suddenly, funeral music and shrill whines are heard blasting from the U.S.

Discover a firsthand account of the 1st Infantry Division’s deployment to Vietnam in 1965 — life in tents, C rations, and the ...

The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict that cost tens of thousands of American soldiers’ lives, and hundreds ...

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WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAW) - A Portage County man was one of 106 veterans who participated in the Never Forgotten Honor Flight: Mission 47. However, he was the only one on the trip who was also shot ...

Rare is it to find a photograph showing a relaxed, almost spirited look at the Vietnam War. Yet, here are photographs of men (and one dog), taken in the quiet, down time of war. Many of these ...

When John Bagwell was shipped off to Vietnam during the war, he was told he’d be safe. After all, he was a DJ. His job was to keep soldiers’ morale high, not to fight. Bagwell’s tour of duty took a ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in ...