The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Program (CAP) just might have been a viable alternative to MACV’s ‘big battalions’ strategy.
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Combat Tracker Teams: Dodging an Elusive Enemy
Trained by New Zealand’s elite Special Air Services, Combat Tracker Teams were intended to give American units a decisive edge over VC in the jungle.
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A Conscientious Objector’s Medal of Honor
Combat Medic Thomas W. Bennett became the second conscientious objector in history to earn the Medal of Honor.
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Tet 1969 at Cu Chi
One year after the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968, Communist forces tried it again.
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Tet Offensive: Battle for Hue
When the enemy launched an all-out assault in January 1968, Army clerk-typist James Mueller learned ‘being a soldier first’ was more than a basic-training slogan.
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Tet Offensive: Inside MACV Headquarters
As General William Westmoreland’s chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter ‘Dutch’ Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war.
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Tet Offensive: 7th Infantry Regiment in Saigon
During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital.