Smith served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, known as the Blackhorse Regiment. Their mission was to find enemy forces, often deep in hostile territory, and destroy them. Days were spent in the ...

We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of ...

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 268’s digitized “Our Photo Album” will be presented at Terry’s Corners Volunteer Fire Company on Veterans Day. The 7 p.m. showing is free and open to all, and was ...

Fox Sports’ NFL pregame show will continue the network’s tradition of honoring the military with Veterans Day. “Fox NFL ...

Jerry Haywood of Coshocton served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969. Haywood is ...

From medevac missions in 1962 to air assaults in Ia Drang, the Bell UH-1 Huey revolutionized modern warfare. Fast, reliable, and mass-produced, it reshaped tactics, saved countless lives, and became ...

An author, poet, photographer and educator, Rottmann has spent his life chronicling the brutality and the humanity of war.

War is hell, and great songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Alice's Restaurant" bring home that message more successfully than the rest.

As a young man, Lon Holmberg was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War, even protesting America’s involvement in the conflict. But when Holmberg was called to duty via the military draft, despite his ...

In the spring of 1968, Donald P. Gervais’s helicopter crashed into a ravine in the dangerous A Shau Valley in the Republic of Vietnam. He was declared missing in action (MIA) for 10 years until the ...

Ken Embers is a Vietnam War helicopter pilot, educator, and author based in Manhattan, Kansas. He continues to teach English online to Vietnamese students preparing for the IELTS. He remains actively ...