From the Argonne to Saigon, battlefield medics were a wounded soldier’s lifeline.
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Air America: Played a Crucial Part of the Emergency Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon
The last assignment of the CIA’s Far East airline was one of its most hectic: airlift more than one thousand people to safety from Saigon rooftops just prior to North Vietnam’s capture of the city.
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Con Thien: The Hill of Angels (Book Review)
Reviewed by Spencer C. Tucker By James Coan University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2004 […]
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Dog Tags Lost and Found In Southeast Asia: An Update
Three scientists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) reach some surprising conclusions about ‘the mystery of the dog tags.’
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Book review: Odysseus in America / Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
Reviewed by Major Robert L. Bateman, U.S. army By Jonathan Shay Scribner’s, New York, […]
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Operation Niagara: Siege of Khe Sanh
The thing that broke the back of the NVA at Khe Sanh, said General Westmoreland, was ‘basically the fire of the B-52s.’
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Interview: NVA General Tran Van Tra
The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam’s counterpart to General William Westmoreland.
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Hearts without Homes: Coping with PTSD
Not all combat casualties appear on the battlefield, nor are all battle scars visible. One woman reveals how she found out the hard way about post-traumatic stress disorder.
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“The Four Horsemen” Demonstrated the Power of the C-130 Hercules
Soon after the introduction of the Lockheed C-130, four U.S. Air Force pilots came up with a great way to demonstrate just how maneuverable and powerful the new transport was.
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
In 1954, the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh, in one of the 20th century’s most decisive battles.