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"Breaker" – Harry Harbord Morant, Australian Boer War soldier and convicted war criminal "Brookie" – Alan Brooke, British World War II general & CIGS "Brute" – Victor H. Krulak, U.S. Marine Corps general "Bub" – Norvell G. Ward, U.S. ace submarine commander [4] "Bubbles" - Sir William Milbourne James, British World War II admiral
American military personnel who served in the Vietnam War (1955-1975). Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States military people of the Vietnam War . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
According to the American sniper Carlos Hathcock, Apache was a female sniper and interrogator for the Viet Cong during the War in Vietnam. [1] [2] While no real name is given by Hathcock, he states she was known by the US military as "Apache", because of her methods of torturing US Marines and ARVN troops for information and then letting them bleed to death.
In 1968, the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group (VWCWG) was established by the Pentagon task force set up in the wake of the My Lai massacre, to ascertain the veracity of emerging claims of US war crimes. Of the war crimes reported to military authorities, sworn statements by witnesses and status reports indicated 320 incidents had a factual ...
173rd Airborne Brigade – "Sky Soldiers"; "The Herd". They received their official nickname (Tien Bing translates to Sky Soldiers) from the Taiwanese locals during exercises when they were parachuting in Taiwan. The 173rd was part of the only major conventional airborne operation (Operation Junction City) during the Vietnam War. The unit's ...
Adelbert Francis "Bert" Waldron III (March 14, 1933 – October 18, 1995) was a United States Army sniper who served during the Vietnam War with the 9th Infantry Division. Until 2011, Waldron held the record for most confirmed kills by any American sniper (109 confirmed kills). [1] [2]
Military personnel of the Vietnam War (1945–1975). Military people from all the nations that participated during 30 years of conflicts in French Indochina and Vietnam , including North Vietnam , South Vietnam , France, the United States , Australia, the Philippines , and South Korea.
Early unmodified ARVN M113 during the Vietnam War Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near Da Nang, 1968. On 26 October 1955, the military was reorganized by the President Ngô Đình Diệm who declared the republic in the State of Vietnam.