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Illustration of Viet Cong tunnel network in Vietnam.

How “Tunnel Rats” Fought the Viet Cong in Underground Tunnels in Vietnam

by William P. Head3/6/20233/7/2023

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20236/28/2023

Photo of American servicemen, former prisoners of war, are cheering as their aircraft takes off from an airfield near Hanoi as part of Operation Homecoming.

How Operation Homecoming Was Sprung into Action to Repatriate American POWs

by J. Keith Saliba2/28/20232/28/2023

Photo of Jim Liles

The Viet Cong Were Shooting Down Americans From a Cave Until This GI Stopped Them

by Jim Liles2/24/20232/24/2023

Illustration of a M1911A1 pistol

The M1911/1911A1 Served as America’s Military Sidearm From 1911 to 1984

by Carl O. Schuster2/17/20232/17/2023

The Army Promised Her a Grave Beside Her Husband—But Buried Someone Else There

by Larry Porges2/16/20232/16/2023

Photo of Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki is Vietnam magazine’s editor emeritus.

How the ‘Galloping Major’ of Australia Earned Both a Silver Star and a Victoria Cross

by David T. Zabecki2/15/20232/15/2023

ypres-battered-forest

War is Hell…on the Environment

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/14/20232/14/2023

Photo of North Vietnamese troops during an assault on a South Vietnamese paratroop base at Laos during the Vietnam War.

How Did Vietnamese Forces Block U.S. Firepower? With a Hug

by Warren Wilkins2/14/20234/26/2024

The Great North Korean Volvo Heist

by Claire Barrett2/9/20232/9/2023