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 ...

Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

From the early 1960s to 1975, the United States fought alongside South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam and the Viet ...

While air and ground battles dominated headlines, a hidden naval war raged across Vietnam’s rivers. Armored boats, river ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese launched an attack ...

To the Viet Cong, a shovel is as important as a rifle. Steadily increasing pressure from American ground and air power has literally pushed the Reds underground, and in the past few years they have ...

The last three staffers in The Associated Press' Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and ...

The greatest Communist folk hero to emerge from the Viet Nam war is a skinny teen-ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be’s death is recorded in ...

Harlan Ullman writes that U.S. military technology “wasn’t able to defeat the guerilla warfare of North Vietnam” (Letters, Aug. 9). As a veteran of those battles, I respectfully object. The guerilla ...

Around 11:30 on March 16, 1968, Captain Ernest Medina ordered a ceasefire of US troops under his command in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai 4. After nearly four hours of gunfire, there was ...

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 ...

Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...