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.

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

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese launched an attack ...

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 ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

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.

The last three staffers in The Associated Press' Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and ...

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

Dennis Louth was in combat near Pleiku, South Vietnam, for 48 consecutive days in 1967, but one day stands out. That was the day the gunner had to fly a Huey helicopter back to its base under fire ...

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