A timeline of events leading up to and surrounding the Battle ... of Major General Terry Allen. The father will gain fame leading the Army's celebrated First Infantry Division during World War ...

Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.

The Vietnam War was not the United ... a crushing military victory. However, the battle was a turning point in American attitudes toward the war as the war's full brutality and moral ambiguity ...

Leo Chase wasn't drafted. He signed up and became the first man from St. Johns County to be killed in Vietnam.

One of the most devastating conflicts the United States has ever taken part in, this 20-year war was fought in the area around Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as both North and South Vietnam faced off.

The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... made sure they picked battles they would be able ...

NVA tanks were also to be used- something that was rare at this point in the war. The artillery ... the Viet Cong start brutal urban battles all across South Vietnam — most notably in Saigon ...

As Hawke points out in his narration, the Vietnam War was the first major Ameican conflict that ... The first full-scale battle of the war was The Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November 1965.

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien ... the end of French control in Vietnam and the beginning of a major dilemma for American political and ...