An American 1st Air Cavalry helicopter airlifts supplies into a Marine outpost during Operation Pegasus in Vietnam in ...

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military faced intense pressure to increase troop numbers without dramatically expanding the draft. In 1966, the Pentagon introduced Project 100,000, a policy that ...

The U.S. observes two national holidays each year to honor its military veterans. Memorial Day, held at the end of May, honors those who are dead. Veterans Day celebrates the nearly 18 million living ...

Photographs from Vietnam in 1963, when America was escalating its involvement in a conflict that would, in time, come to ...

Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most ...