Veteran actor Vic Morrow and child actors seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le and six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen lost their lives on ...
In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...
The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...
Let’s take a closer look at the fixed-wing, and rotary-wing, aircraft in Coppola’s masterpiece. The most prominently featured aircraft in Apocalypse Now is the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, known as the “Huey.” ...
The American-made Bulldog never saw action at the hands of U.S. tank crews, but it still saw combat. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, and one of the ...
The Westland Wessex was the first helicopter in the world with a gas turbine propulsion system to be produced in large ...
When I pitched a review of Hanoi’s massive new Vietnam Military History Museum to the Saigoneer editorial staff, I expected to find the museum somewhat boring. After all, although I am a historian, I ...
The RAF base still has a few of its original buildings still standing including the barracks, which feature in an Oscar nominated film. The area for RAF Bassingbourn was chosen because it was swampy ...
John Harding II served his country with honor and distinction from 1991 to 2018 in the US Marine Corps and the US Army, ...
The M1 Carbine is one of the most recognizable military firearms in the world. Here's an overview of how it works, and how ...
She was the first woman to fly rescue missions in a combat zone, in Indochina and Algeria. She was also the first Frenchwoman ...
In "Vietnam," Broyles, a screenwriter who went on to create the 1980s TV series "China Beach," and one of those platoon members share their reflections on those tense times, as they emotionally ...