The full letter, which is widely available these days, ran to about 2,000 words worth of evidence that “something very black indeed” had happened. Further publicity came in the form of an ...

The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...

Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations has become its own niche in the wider history of the war. If the reader is familiar with the genre, they ...

Black Virgin Mountain, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1969: A patrol is about to depart on a mission outside the mountain top’s perimeter wire in search of enemy activity. Multi-service forces had been ...

"In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research.

There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...

A simple message was delivered more than 50 years late, but it was resoundingly well-received by those who deserved to hear it. That message was, “welcome home.” The U.S. Army Financial Management ...

VO DOT, VIET NAM: American soldiers of the 173th airborne are evacuated by helicopter from a Vietcong position 11 December 1965. (Photo credit should read AFP via Getty Images) The American economy ...