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Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, book about soldier & sailor resistance during the Vietnam War; Stop Our Ship (SOS) anti-Vietnam War movement in and around the U.S. Navy; The Spitting Image - book dispelling the myth of the spat-on Vietnam veteran; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Waging Peace in Vietnam; Winter ...
Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...
The OG-107 uniform was introduced in 1952 during the Korean War. It became the standard for use both in the United States and on overseas deployment by the beginning of the Vietnam War. As the Tropical Combat Uniform (jungle fatigues) became more plentiful in South Vietnam, they began to replace the OG-107 uniform in combat units.
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) adopted the green-dominant version as standard issue in South Vietnam in 1968, and later the U.S. Army introduced it on a wide scale in Southeast Asia. The ERDL-pattern combat uniform was identical in cut to the OG-107 Tropical Combat uniform, commonly called "jungle fatigues", it was issued alongside. [7]
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster.The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa [1] about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.
On June 3, 1970, The New York Times announced that the "antiwar movement has reached the United States military officers corps." "Calling themselves the Concerned Officers Movement, about 25 officers based in Washington, most of them Navy men, have banded together to provide a forum for what they say is growing disillusionment among their ranks ...
(Reuters) - William Calley, who during the Vietnam War led his U.S. Army platoon into the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai and carried out one of the worst war crimes in American military history, has ...
October 15, 1969 - Hundreds of thousands of people attend mass protests across the United States for the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War. November 15, 1969 - A second, larger protest takes place in Washington D.C., with an estimated 500,000 people. December 1, 1969 - The first draft lottery since 1942 is held.