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A B-52D Stratofortress leaves Andersen Air Force Base on Guam for a bombing run over North Vietnam. B-52s delivered 75 percent of the bomb tonnage during Operation Linebacker II, launched on Dec. 18, 1972, to pressure Hanoi into signing a peace agreement.

How Operation Linebacker II Took the North Vietnamese By Surprise

by Carl O. Schuster1/4/20231/4/2023

Photo of Soldiers of the National Liberation Front , the Viet Cong, in the early 1960s display weapons from a variety of sources, from left, a captured American M79 grenade launcher; an American M1 carbine, captured from the French or South Vietnamese or supplied by the Chinese; and a K-50M submachine gun supplied by North Vietnam.

Here Are the Weapons of the NVA — Backed by Russia and China

by Jon Guttman12/19/202212/19/2022

Photo of Barbara Robbins in South Vietnam, enjoys a day with friend Bill McDonald on a rented fishing boat off the coast of Nha Trang in fall 1964.

This Young Woman Was the First CIA Agent Killed in Vietnam

by Cathryn J. Prince12/13/202212/13/2022

Photo of Richard E. Cavazos

Fort Hood Renamed: Meet Richard E. Cavazos

by Doug Sterner12/5/202212/5/2022

Drawing of EB-66 Destroyer with labels

The EB-66 Destroyer: A Life-Saving Intelligence Aircraft

by Carl O. Schuster11/29/202212/13/2022

Photo of 1967: A Platoon Commander from the United States 1st Marine Division using a radio during operations in Vietnam. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

They Assumed the Enemy in Vietnam Was Incapable of Intercepting Radio Communications. They Were Wrong

by David M. Fiedler11/23/202212/13/2022

F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars book cover.

‘F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars’ Review: An Aircraft of the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Jon Guttman11/22/202211/28/2022

A narrow gap between the protestors and the riot police during a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington DC, 21st May 1972. 173 demonstrators were later arrested during a violent confrontation with the police. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

When Did the US Lose the Vietnam War? Here Are Some Dates

by Jerry D. Morelock11/17/20224/26/2024

5/18/1969-A Shau Valley, South Vietnam: A quartet of U.S. 101st Air Division troopers keep low as they rush a stretcher-borne wounded comrade to a medical aid station during the battle for Hamburger Hill. New fighting erupted about the controversial hill on May 23.

At Hamburger Hill in Vietnam, a Can of Peaches Meant Life or Death

by Arthur Wiknik Jr.11/16/202211/16/2022

Year of the Hawk: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965 book cover. Troopers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade carry men wounded in a battle at a Viet Cong stronghold about 40 miles north of Saigon in early November 1965. That year was one of the war’s most consequential, with the first major combat against enemy forces.

Book Review: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher11/15/20224/26/2024