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Region Archives:Asia

This Panther Pilot’s Combat Mission Was So Secret He Couldn’t Talk About it For 40 Years

by Dave Kindy11/17/20221/23/2023
5/18/1969-A Shau Valley, South Vietnam: A quartet of U.S. 101st Air Division troopers keep low as they rush a stretcher-borne wounded comrade to a medical aid station during the battle for Hamburger Hill. New fighting erupted about the controversial hill on May 23.

At Hamburger Hill in Vietnam, a Can of Peaches Meant Life or Death

by Arthur Wiknik Jr.11/16/202211/16/2022
Year of the Hawk: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965 book cover. Troopers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade carry men wounded in a battle at a Viet Cong stronghold about 40 miles north of Saigon in early November 1965. That year was one of the war’s most consequential, with the first major combat against enemy forces.

Book Review: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher11/15/20224/26/2024

The Grieving Mother Who Took the Vietnam War To LBJ

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher11/14/202211/15/2022
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This Ukrainian Poet Is Inspiring Freedom—Over 100 Years After His Death

by Taras Shevchenko11/10/202211/10/2022
Extraordinary Valor: The Fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam book cover.

Book Review: Extraordinary Valor / The Fight for Charlie Hill in Vietnam

by John Howard11/8/20224/27/2024

Everything You Wanted to Know about WWII Uniform Insignia (But Were Afraid to Ask)

by Tom Huntington11/7/202211/7/2022

Production Wraps on Korean DMZ War Movie ‘Valiant One’

by Sarah Sicard11/3/202211/3/2022
Greco-Macedonian army fights at Hydaspes River

How Did a Ladder Almost Kill Alexander the Great?

by Robert Holmes11/2/202210/5/2022
A tank offers support to a group of U.S. Marines awaiting signal to advance on trapped North Vietnamese unit near Da Ha near the DMZ, June 24, 1968. (AP Photo/Dana Stone)

They Were Told to Wait. They Didn’t — and Saved Dozens of Marines

by Samuel N. Thomas Jr.10/25/202211/15/2022

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