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The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] ... included were 5 million tons of food to North Vietnam (equivalent to a year's food ... Many war crimes took place, by both ...
The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion. The costs of the war loom large in American popular consciousness; a 1990 poll showed that the public incorrectly believed that more Americans lost their lives in Vietnam than in World ...
A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam New York: Harcourt. Harry G. Summers. 1982. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-563-7, ISBN 978-0-89141-563-3; Shelby Stanton. 1987. Vietnam: Order of Battle; Shelby Stanton. 1988. The Rise and Fall of an ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
A few Americans chose not to be evacuated. United States ground combat units had left South Vietnam more than two years prior to the fall of Saigon and were not available to assist with either the defense of Saigon or the evacuation. [11] The evacuation was the largest helicopter evacuation in history.
The Vietnam War was an asymmetrical conflict in which the U.S. Army fought against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong, who pursued guerrilla tactics. The battles often took place in unknown, jungle-covered terrain, which made the conventional tactics of the US army ineffective.
Four Vietnam war veterans from the 173rd Airborne Brigade reunited Thursday, more than four decades after an explosion nearly killed one of them. KTLA captured the emotional reunion.
0–9. 1940–1946 in French Indochina; 1947–1950 in French Indochina; 1954 in Vietnam; 1955 in the Vietnam War; 1956 in the Vietnam War; 1957 in the Vietnam War