Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...

Hidden in the underbrush, these traps maimed, killed, and haunted soldiers with every step. The Vietcong turned simple tools into brutal weapons. Chevron reacts to Trump's Venezuela plan Should you ...

Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...

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Cong Caphe is a large Vietnamese café chain. Its trademark is a khaki-green exterior and waiters and waitresses in Viet Cong outfits. Carola Frentzen/dpa Vietnam knows its coffee. After all this ...

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 ...

Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.

During the war Vietcong and NVA soldiers became highly experienced in making deadly contraptions that were responsible for the deaths of a great number of American soldiers. Ford has a persistent ...

Armed with a three-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo stick with a slit cut on one end, a 14-inch World War II Japanese bayonet, and a silenced .38 Special revolver pistol, Nicholas “Nick” Sanza was deep ...

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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 ...