In February 1966, a U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawk mission over Vietnam went horribly wrong. What began as a strike on coastal guns ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Nuclear weapons still engender deep contradictions. The most powerful weapons ever devised serve no other purpose but to prevent their use by others. By February 1966 ...

He covered Fort Worth servicemen in Vietnam. Now his photographs from the war will be on display in an exhibit at UT Arlington.

Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing. Flying “low and slow,” the pilots ...

The upcoming Vietnam War drama "The Last Full Measure" tells the story of Airman 1st Class William Pitsenbarger's heroic courage in the jungles of Vietnam in 1966, and the decades-long fight by his ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

TOKYO — Film star Charlton Heston said here Friday that Americans were in Vietnam because of their determination to let the Vietnamese choose their own form of government and their own way of life.

Soldiers have long been subjected to invidious generational comparison. It’s a military rite of passage for new recruits to hear from old hands that everything from boot camp to combat was tougher ...

A paratrooper officer reflected upon his Vietnam service and the time he spent with Bob Hope and other celebrities there to entertain the troops serving there. “I traveled the Bob Hope Show in 1966,” ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. VANG TAU, Vietnam (AP) — Under pressure from top Australian officials, Vietnam on ...