A timeline of events leading up to and surrounding ... becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War. Following a breakdown in negotiations, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh forces begin a war ...

You need to score five aerial kills to become an ace, so there’s something numerically poetic about the fact that there were ...

By March, 1965, the first U.S. combat troops had touched down on Vietnamese soil, with thousands more on their way. The war would not end until 1975 with Hanoi unifying the whole of Vietnam.

More than forty years after its conclusion, the Vietnam War is a persistent wound on the American psyche. It is a war that divided families and communities, and sparked massive protests on college ...