Michael Kelley of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) had a brief respite from combat duty visiting his sister at Nha Trang near the South China Sea.
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How CIA and Special Forces Tested Counterinsurgency Strategy in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
In 1961, the CIA’s clandestine Combined Studies Group, along with U.S. Special Forces, began experimenting with a program to organize a group of Vietnam’s Highland tribes known collectively as “Montagnards”
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Book Review: 100 days in Vietnam
In 2008, Tallon was finally awarded a Purple Heart, which he had not received because his plane’s crash was officially characterized as a “non-hostile” accident.
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See How US Air Force Special Ops Squadrons Took on Dangerous Missions in Vietnam
An array of specialized U.S. Air Force units took on some of the Vietnam War’s most dangerous missions
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He Was The First U.S. Soldier Killed in Ground Combat in Vietnam
Spc. 4 James T. Davis lost his life tracking down an enemy signal in Vietnam
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See the Marine Corps Force Recon in Action in Vietnam
These long-range Marine Corps reconnaissance patrols probed deep into enemy territory
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‘Give Me…’: For More Than Two Centuries, Those Words Have Been a Constant in Our Wartime Vocabulary
“Dammit, Brad, just give me 400,000 gallons of gasoline and I’ll put you inside Germany in two days”
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Book Review: War In the Villages
Author Ted Easterling examines strengths and weaknesses in a U.S. program established to win the “hearts and minds” of the Vietnamese population
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A Closer Look at North Vietnam’s D-74 122 mm Field Gun
The 122 mm D-74, a towed gun that entered Soviet service in 1955, was the most numerous gun in the NVA’s five independent artillery regiments
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Air Force Honors Vietnam Fighter Pilot Robin Olds
A new Air Force Academy memorial includes a statue of colorful Vietnam War fighter pilot Col. Robin Olds, a “triple ace” with a larger-than-life personality