Thirty-eight Schuylkill County men were killed in action, four died en route and one remains missing in action from the Vietnam War. In recognition of the 25th anniversary celebration of the ...
The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the ...
WAYNESVILLE DECLARES WEEK OF OCT. 8 'CAPTAIN FRED HALL WEEK' IN HONOR OF LOCAL VIETNAM FLYER It was no surprise to him that Hall would become a jet navigator in the war or that Green Hill Cemetery ...
Dewey, an employee of the CIA's precursor agency, the Office of Strategic Services, is shot and killed on his way to the Saigon airport, becoming the first American casualty of the Vietnam War.
The announcement this week came during Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month and as Congress considered other measures to ...
The lingering, and sometimes deadly, impacts of the Vietnam War can emerge decades later. Exposure to Agent Orange has caused ...
Only one step remains for legislation that has received congressional approval for gold medals for Billie Jean King and ...
This tactic also led to a high number of civilian casualties, destruction of ... soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers ...
Photographer Mike Holtby recently turned his camera’s focus to something new – Vietnam veterans. Known for his photography of ...
These efforts to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve relations with ... 1972), along with the growing number of American casualties in Vietnam, may have shaped Nixon’s attitude to the ...