This is an aerial view of the Thien Ngon Special Forces camp 71 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam. (Courtesy of Jim Jones) March 29 is Vietnam War Veterans Day, the day set aside to remember and ...
In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 1969, soldiers at Ben Het Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands near the Laotian border heard something unusual in the jungle. They had patrolled the area for ...
This double-page map from the summer of 1965 is typical of public information supporting American involvement in the Vietnamese war at that time. The map uses enlarged asterisks to show the location ...
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Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...
Six high school students curated the newest temporary exhibit at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum (ASOM) in Fayetteville, N.C. “Warrior Bonds: U.S. Army Special Forces & Montagnards in ...
The military declared Moreland dead in 1978 after he was not included in any prisoner swaps with communist Vietnamese forces and no remains were recovered. In 1995 a team searching for remains found ...
In the middle of the Tet Offensive, perhaps the most emblematic episode of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong, executed a brutal joint assault across the ...
High school students curated a temporary exhibit, "Warrior Bonds: U.S. Army Special Forces & Montagnards in Vietnam," at a Fayetteville museum. The exhibit showcases student research on the ...