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The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive collects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Center and Archive, part of Texas Tech University , is the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of information on the Vietnam War.
The Texas Panhandle War Memorial Center will host a reception for veterans in honor of National Vietnam Veterans Day at 1 p.m. Friday, March 29. U.S. troops had left Vietnam by March 29, 1973.
U.S. Highway 83 (US 83), dedicated as the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, is a U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Texas that begins at US 77 (Interstate 69E, I-69E) in Brownsville and follows the Rio Grande to Laredo, then heads north through Abilene to the Oklahoma state line north of Perryton, the seat of Ochiltree County.
Buc-ee’s Travel Center. The highly anticipated Buc-ee’s travel center in Amarillo officially broke ground on Oct. 26, 2023, marking its entry into the Texas Panhandle.
In July 1968, he was deployed to the Republic of Vietnam. He first saw duty as a rifleman with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines , 1st Marine Division . In September 1968, he was assigned duty as fire team leader with Company I, 3rd Battalion 9th Marines , 3rd Marine Division and was promoted to lance corporal on November 1, 1968.
Around 2.7 million American service members fought in the Vietnam War and 3.4 million served in Southeast Asia. The U.S. lost 58,000 service members in the unpopular war where 153,303 were wounded.
Built in 1937 and 1938, the building occupies a prominent position in downtown Amarillo, across East Fifth Avenue north of Courthouse Square. [4] Smaller and less important architecturally than the adjacent Potter County Courthouse, the Jones Building nevertheless gives the Federal Government a tangible presence in the center this city on the plains of North Texas, and demonstrates the concern ...
Original unissued patch. The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.