WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing. Flying “low and slow,” the pilots ...

HAWTHORNE, N.J.-- This Memorial Day, a New Jersey town is remembering a Vietnam War Marine who was killed at just 21 years old. A new display in Hawthorne hopes to carry on his memory by showcasing a ...

Near the Cambodian border, South Vietnam, June 1966: Squad leader Sgt. John Smith is treated for his wounds during a firefight. In the summer of 1996 Pacific Stars and Stripes reporter Gary Cooper, a ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.