In November 1965, U.S. forces were airlifted into the remote Ia Drang Valley, marking America’s first major battle of the Vietnam War. What followed was a brutal clash between helicopter-borne U.S.

In March 1965, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War to prevent communism from spreading to that recently divided country’s southern half. That same year, a nationwide protest movement ...

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019. The exhibition will tour to the ...

WASHINGTON — Whatever happened to “protest art” — issue-specific, say-no-to-power-and-say-it-loud art? Here we are, embroiled, as a nation, in what many in the art world regard as a pretty desperate ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history ...

Vietnam War Army veteran Harry Metzler pays respects to men he served with in the 1st Infantry Division at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Fifty years ago, communist ...

The Vietnam War wasn’t just fought in the dense jungles and muddy rice fields of Southeast Asia — it was felt in the homes and hearts of an entire generation. Young soldiers trudged through forests ...

Deployed in late 1966, the “Guns a Go-Go” unit quickly proved its worth in Vietnam’s unforgiving terrain. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, at a time when American and North Vietnamese forces were ...

West Manchester Township’s Linda Bean has recorded the stories of about 125 Vietnam War veterans in her 10 years with ALLVETS. So she’s well suited to summarize the stories of these veterans from York ...

Navy recruits in 1965 wait in line for immunizations during recruit training at Naval Station Great Lakes. (U.S. Naval Institute/Facebook) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...