The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

‘11 pax on board, including the commander. All the Americans are out. That is it.’ Those words, spoken by the pilot of the CH-46 helicopter who carried the last eleven Marines out of Vietnam, mark the ...

How could America lose the Vietnam War? Even now, 50 years after the last American helicopters left Saigon, the answer is elusive. Despite pouring immense resources into Vietnam — including nearly 3 ...

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 ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals and refused to set a date to resume discussions. Five days later, American B ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages 1175790897 Stuart Lutz Gado Getty Images 2 The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the ...