The Viet Cong’s 1965 bombing of Saigon’s My Canh restaurant killed scores of people […]
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The Ragged Edge of Vietnamization
The failings of a U.S. plan to turn the war over to the South Vietnamese were revealed on the battlefields of An Loc and Quanc Tri when rapport degenerated into rancor
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Colin Powell’s Vietnam and the Making of an American Statesman
Colin Powell on lessons learned while serving in America’s second-longest war in an exclusive 2016 interview with HistoryNet’s Vietnam editor Chuck Springston
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The First Battle of Khe Sahn
A year before the famous 1968 siege of the remote American outpost, Marines fought […]
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They Came and Died, to Keep the Past Upon its Throne
A Naval Reserve officer, David Greenway started his career as a Time magazine war […]
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Daily Quiz for April 10, 2017
This was the first appearance of comic book character, Wolverine.
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Daily Quiz for April 9, 2017
This was the first true supermarket in the United States.
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Daily Quiz for April 8, 2017
Harold Sakata, who played “Oddjob” in the movie “Goldfinger” won an Olympic medal in this sport.
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Doomsday on Wheels
The U.S. Army’s unique, 85-ton artillery launcher could certainly shoot, but could it really […]