Two Navy aviators from Jacksonville share their experiences during the Vietnam War in a new book by Jacksonville University Professor Keith Saliba. Jack "Fingers" Ensch, who lost his thumb while a ...

South Dakotan Douglas Brent Hegdahl, who’d never seen the ocean before joining the Navy in the midst of the Vietnam War, had somehow fallen from the ship. Just 20 years old, he survived hours in ...

Few Americans born after the Tet Offensive know even the barest facts about the Vietnam War. I aim this generalization not at the oft-underrated Joe Sixpack but at graduates of our finest ...

In the Vietnam War, Gallagher demonstrated exceptional bravery. On July 18, 1966, while serving as a Lance Corporal with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, his platoon was ...

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery team is in Northern Vietnam searching ... of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. Video courtesy of the US Navy Follow BI Video: On Facebook ...

Probably another 2,000 were wounded. Casualty figures reflect the pattern of American involvement in the war. One local man, Navy flight surgeon Bruce C. Farrell of WESTLAKE, died in Oct. 1963, before ...

The Navy's New Destroyer Is Named for the First SEAL to Receive the Medal of Honor This Vietnam War Legend Is the Only Soldier Nominated 3 Times for the Medal of Honor ...

In 1968, with mounting criticism of the Vietnam War at home and abroad, President Johnson announced that he would stop the bombing of North Vietnam and that he would not run for re-election the ...

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...

Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in the Vietnam era ... he visited Japan after its surrender. Sewell, a Navy lieutenant who had worked for the Selective Service ...