It was a grim tale of Viet Cong tactics. By night, clad in black, 200 Communist guerrillas stealthily forded the moat surrounding the sleeping outpost of the government Self-Defense Corps, snipped the ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

It is commonly believed that the Vietnam War was waged only by the United States armed forces against the Communists of the North, but the reality was much different. As part of the Free World ...

Into the Valley of Death last week flew the 800. They were South Vietnamese troops being lifted by a company of U.S. H21 troop-carrying helicopters to clean out a Communist-infested jungle hideout 175 ...

In the 1960s, the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) – an old World War II escort aircraft carrier performing supply-carrying duties at the time – was sunk after 180 pounds of explosives detonated at the ship’s ...

“The guerrillas are the fish, and the people are the water,” wrote Mao Zedong, perhaps the greatest guerrilla fighter of the 20th century. This week the U.S. military speared two of the largest fish ...