Green Beret Robert Howard is the only one of the 3,547 Medal of Honor recipients to be nominated for the United States’ top ...
As Rebecca Grant elaborated in a June 2012 article for Air & Space Forces Magazine: “[T]he nation relied on airpower to halt North Vietnam’s biggest conventional invasion of the Vietnam War ...
the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. The siege lasted 77 days and was one of the longest and most gruesome battles in the war.
Operation Linebacker I was the venue by which both the USN and USAF produced their first aces (five or more enemy aircraft destroyed in air-to-air combat) of the Vietnam War: ...
The "Vietnamization" of the war and a phased withdrawal of American troops lowered county deaths to 87 in 1969, 39 in 1970, 15 in 1971, and 4 in 1972. WOMEN also served in Vietnam, and one nurse from ...
Part of the reason this is the case is that the United States Armed Forces hasn’t produced any air aces since the Vietnam War—and that conflict ended fifty years ago this coming April.
American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the acronym BEAST - Bombing, Escalation, Air and artillery ... bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two. However, bombing was highly inaccurate ...
The Veteran’s Memorial Center presents a special event honoring Vietnam veterans in commemoration of National Vietnam Veterans Day.
Long-time Merritt Island resident Glenn Briggs has penned his compelling memoir Gifts of Life: Times of Love, of War and of Miracles.
Following this direction, on March 3, 1955, the Ministry of National Defence decided to establish the Airport Research Department, marking the formation of Vietnam's air force. Building on its proud ...
Read more of that coverage here. Larry La discusses his memoir 'Square Moon: One Man's Journey From War-Torn Vietnam to D.C.'s Hottest Kitchens' with the WTOP Book Report.(Cover Art courtesy ...
Trump landed there with Air ... the war, she founded one of Vietnam’s first rehabilitation centers for people with disabilities caused by Agent Orange, which the United States banned in 1971.