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About 7,000 U.S. women served overseas as nurses during the Vietnam War. These veterans are working to ensure their contributions are honored on Veterans Day 2024.
The dispatch of a new military advisor in Nov. 1954, the increase of the MAAG to 300 personnel by May 1957 and to 700 men by Jan. 1961, as well as the infusion between 1955 and 1961 of $1 billion ...
The Army vet spent the next eight months recovering from surgery in rehab. He was eventually discharged in December of 1966. He also became Portage County’s first wounded soldier in the Vietnam War.
In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old Air Force sergeant in Vietnam, assigned to an Army base camp surrounding the village of Lai Khe, nearly 40 miles north of Saigon.
Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman is the subject of a forthcoming book, "How the Army Saved Itself: Maxwell R. Thurman and the Army's Post-Vietnam Metamorphosis." Thurman helped lead an Army in transition ...
An annual ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that honors veterans who died after returning home from military service in Vietnam will be moved for the first time in more than three decades ...
Capt. David Alan Christian is the youngest and most decorated Vietnam veteran and is now part of the National Military Officers Hall of Fame Latest U.S.
For the first time in more than 30 years, an annual ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which honors those who fought in the war, will not take place at the historic site due to President ...
U.S. Army’s 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Air Cavalry Troop, also known as the Black Horse Regiment, held a memorial service on July 20, 2024, at the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial.
For the first time in decades, an annual ceremony honoring Vietnam War veterans won't be held in Washington due to President Donald Trump's Army parade.
William Hammond, Army historian of Vietnam War, dies at 79. His two-volume study of the war concluded flawed policy and rising casualties, not negative press coverage, eroded public support ...