Johnson (LBJ) for turning the Vietnam War from a guerrilla war to one of conventional warfare. Yet we still could have won the war in 1968! Contrary to the claims of the likes of Walter Cronkite ...
Its primary mission during the Vietnam War was using its powerful 5- and 8 ... Doug Hegdahl in captivity around Christmastime in 1968. He had been held in the Hanoi Hilton since early April ...
While the war established Vietnam as a potent military power in Southeast Asia, the massive scale of the armed conflict ...
A former Navy SEAL who carried the V40 mini-grenades in Vietnam said they were good for rooms and small buildings and not much else.
and "The Green Berets" (1968), starring John Wayne. Additionally, he discusses the tragedies and aftermath of the Vietnam War, connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on ...
A long-time advocate for military women, Diane Carlson Evans received one of the nation’s highest civilian honors during ...
He enlisted in the Army in 1968 and attended the 9th Infantry Division ... 900 yards away on a moving boat platform. Before the Vietnam War, there was no Sniper training program in the U.S ...
The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses, and urban rioting, made him vulnerable.