George “Bud” Day considered death a welcome possibility once or twice while he was a POW at the Hanoi Hilton in North Vietnam. In the end he stared it down, endured the brutality for 67 months and never betrayed his comrades or country.
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Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War
Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take. South Vietnamese paratroopers became a breakwater against the Communist flood.
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Vietnam War: The Individual Rotation Policy
The individual rotation policy was, in hindsight, clearly one of the worst ideas of the Vietnam War. At the time, however, military planners had few options.
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Sapper Attack in the A Shau During the Vietnam War
Fire Support Base Cunningham dominated the A Shau Valley. The sappers of the North Vietnamese Army’s 812th Regiment were ordered to destroy it.
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Operation Babylift: Evacuating Children Orphaned by the Vietnam War
An American relief effort worked nonstop to evacuate abandoned Amerasian children from Vietnam before Saigon fell.
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Bernard B. Fall: Vietnam War Author
Bernard Fall lived the protracted war he wrote about so vividly and knowledgeably.
By Charles E. Kirkpatrick
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The Battle at Ap Bac Changed America’s View of the Vietnam War
On January 3,1963, several American war correspondents approached General Paul D. Harkins to ask what […]
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Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale: Vietnam War Hero and Indomitable Spirit at the Hanoi Hilton
As author Joseph Conrad wrote in his great book Lord Jim, ‘A certain readiness […]
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3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War
Captain Matt Caulfield’s understrength company labored through the brush and scrub growth of an […]
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Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Lt. Col. James H. Willbanks, U.S. Army (ret.) By Carol Reardon University […]