In exchange for waving a white flag, Benjamin Prentiss
was hailed as the savior of the “Hornets’ Nest.”
It seemed all South Vietnam was ablaze in the early hours of the 1968 Tet Offensive as a Huey helicopter gunship pilot performed a death-defying aerial maneuver to rescue an Australian unit ambushed and pinned down by a Viet Cong .50-caliber gunner.
U.S. Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska share this distinction.
This American military advisor, who achieved outstanding tactical results in the field, retired from the Army and then returned to Vietnam in 1965 as a civilian advisor.
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At the beginning of the Tet Offensive, one rifle company was ordered to to clear the village of Ho Nai, a Bien Hoa suburb. No infantry school tactic fit the situation; improvisation became the order of the day.
This American military advisor, who achieved outstanding tactical results in the field, retired from the Army and then returned to Vietnam in 1965 as a civilian advisor.
No account of the American Revolution is complete without reference to the Hessians, but soldiers of the German mercenary state Hesse fought many wars under many flags.
The son of a poor scholar, this Asian leader led the nationalist movement of his country for three decades, until his death in 1969.
