Discover a firsthand account of the 1st Infantry Division’s deployment to Vietnam in 1965 — life in tents, C rations, and the ...

This year marks 50 years since the Vietnam War ended with the capture of Saigon by communist forces, and among those who ...

It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Naja Pham Lockwood sat in a corner of the last South Vietnamese ship to leave Vietnam during the harrowing chaos as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. As a multitude of people ...

DoD photos. Almost as soon as The Wall went up, families came to Washington to find their sailor’s name. They’d find Panel 23, a black granite slab of the Vietnam War Memorial — widely called The Wall ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

Test your knowledge about the conflict that defined a generation. A half-century after the war’s finale, the aging of the baby boomer generation means firsthand memories of the conflict are fading.