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SOG operatives entered enemy territory wearing “sterile” clothing with no items that could give the enemy any indication of their individual identities or nationality. SOG Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969, cook cover.

Book Review: SOG Kontum / Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia 1968-1969

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher7/10/20234/27/2024

South Vietnamese citizens try to board a bus out of Saigon in the frenzied last days before the capital fell. A new book details the efforts of an American banker to help some of his Vietnamese colleagues escape. Book cover, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians.

Book Review: Getting Out of Saigon / How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

by Jon Guttman6/29/20234/26/2024

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The Infamous Claymore Mine, AKA the Clacker, Mowed Down Everyone in Its Path

by Chris McNab6/28/20236/28/2023

A Requiem for Daniel Ellsberg

by Larry Porges6/27/20236/27/2023

Photo of American forces on Chu Lai beach searching for a defensive position shortly after descending from the landing crafts aboard the USS Thomaston. Vietnam, June 1965.

In the First Major Offensive of the Vietnam War, Both Sides Claimed Victory. Who Actually Won?

by John Walker6/26/20236/26/2023

The History Behind Famous ‘Gay Vietnam Veteran’ Headstone

by Sarah Sicard6/20/20236/20/2023

Photo of Infantrymen of the U.S. 4th Division move across clearing passing poncho-wrapped body of a buddy at the spot where he fell in Vietnam on March 23, 1967. Action took place 20 miles northwest of Pleiku in the central highlands of Vietnam, near the Cambodian border.

How A Search for Missing Comrades in Vietnam Led Two Infantry Companies Straight Into an Enemy Inferno

by Warren Wilkins6/19/20235/15/2023

Photo of HALO parachutists of SOG link up beneath a Huey helicopter above Camp Long Thanh.

Their Existence Was Denied by the US Government. Their Mission Photos Proved Otherwise

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher6/16/20236/16/2023

Photo of a O-2A Super Skymaster, used as a FAC aircraft, fires a smoke rocket at an enemy stronghold. The smoke rocket will mark the area for strike aircraft. Fast reaction time and increased time over target, plus the safety factor of its two engines make the O-2 ideal for both psychological warfare and FAC missions.

This Plane Made all the Difference in Vietnam — So Did its Aviators

by Barry Levine6/12/20235/15/2023

Photo of, author Paul Ingevaldson working on an M18 Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC) used for gun targeting in Vietnam.

The FADAC Was Used to Calculate Artillery Firing Data. Was it One of the First Personal Computers?

by Paul Ingevaldson5/22/20235/15/2023