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Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive. |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital. |
Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet. |
Vietnam February 2007 James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968. |
Vietnam Don North |
VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy An American reporter witnessed the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive -- and experienced firsthand the strain between the press and the military. |
Vietnam December 2007 James H. Willbanks |
"The Most Brilliant Commander": Ngo Quang Truong General Norman Schwarzkopf was among those who had utmost respect for South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong. |
Vietnam John M. Carland |
Interview with NVA General Tran Van Tra The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam's counterpart to General William Westmoreland. |
Vietnam James I. Marino |
Strategic Crossroads at Khe Sanh Khe Sanh was a deadly pas de deux in which General William C. Westmoreland called the tune and General Vo Nguyen Giap paid the piper. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
The Withdrawal from Khe Sanh Two months after withstanding the most ferocious siege of the Vietnam War, Khe Sanh was abandoned to the enemy in 1968. |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Vietnam June 2007 Peter Brush |
Battle of Khe Sanh: Recounting the Battle's Casualties A Marine veteran of the war's longest battle in 1968 searches for the truth beyond the official numbers. |
Vietnam April 2007 Peter Kross |
John Paul Vann: Man and Legend The outspoken American adviser was a 'hair shirt' for the American command in Vietnam, but he was worth the trouble. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta. |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours. |
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Desperate Hours During Tet: Inside MACV Headquarters As General William Westmoreland's chief of staff at the time of the 1968 Tet Offensive, Maj. Gen. Walter 'Dutch' Kerwin had a key seat with the military inner circle during one of the most critical events of the war. |
Vietnam Shaun M. Darragh |
The Hoa Binh Campaign At Hoa Binh, the watershed of the First Indochina War, the Viet Minh succeeded in bottling up the French in the Red River Delta. |
Vietnam Richard W. Hale |
A CIA Officer in Saigon The CIA struggled to keep its operation in Vietnam going until the very fall of Saigon. |
Vietnam October 2007 William A. Barry |
Air Power in the Siege of Khe Sanh Tactical airlift and aerial fire support during the 77-day siege were key to averting an American Dien Bien Phu and defeating the NVA at Khe Sanh. |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
Operation Niagara: Siege of Khe Sanh The thing that broke the back of the NVA at Khe Sanh in 1968 was the fire of the B-52s. |
Vietnam February 8, 2005 Peter Brush |
The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam In 1966, resistance to the Saigon government almost sparked a South Vietnamese civil war. |
World War II Gary Schreckengost |
Buying Time At The Battle Of The Bulge Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James Donovan |
Combined Action Program: Marines' Alternative to Search and Destroy The U.S. Marine Corps CAP just might have been a viable alternative to MACV's 'big battalions' strategy in Vietnam. |
Vietnam Nicoud & Darragh |
Foreign Legion Specialized Units in Indochina Although best known as one of the finest light infantry forces in the world, the French Foreign Legion had many specialized units in Indochina. |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords. |
World War II April 22, 2004 Zabecki & Wooster |
Herrlisheim: Death of an American Combat Command With their backs to the wall, German troops fought ferociously against the American VI Corps in and around a small Alsatian village. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
CORDS: Winning Hearts and Minds in Vietnam At the heart of civil operations and revolutionary development support was the U.S. province senior adviser. CORDS pulled together all the various U.S. military and civilian agencies involved in the 1967 pacification effort |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge. |
Vietnam June 2006 James M. Haley |
1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century. |
Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam. |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Major John F. Mullins |
A Bad Day at Bu Dop In March 1967 two Special Forces soldiers sacrificed their lives in an obscure battle that could have changed the course of the war in Vietnam. |
World War II November 17, 2004 Martin F. Graham |
High Tide at Bastogne In stopping the last major German assault against Bastogne, the veteran gunners of the 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion proved their skill to skeptical troops of the 101st Airborne Division. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James F. Humphries |
In Defense of a Hamlet In May 1967, a platoon of the 31st Infantry fought off a VC attack in force against a hamlet loyal to the Saigon government. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Wilfred P. Deac |
Losing Ground to the Khmer Rouge As the war in Vietnam wound down with the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the war in neighboring Cambodia was going from bad to worse. |
World War II October 2007 Lloyd Clark |
Operation Market Garden Reconsidered A British historian argues that Operation Market Garden wasn't such a bad idea after all. |
Vietnam Brent Swager |
Rescue at LZ Albany Chaos prevailed over the battle zone, but the helicopter crews never wavered. They had to save the troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who were dying in the tall grass. |
Vietnam Kevin D. Randle |
Tet 1969 at Cu Chi One year after the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968, Communist forces tried it again. |
Military History Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr. |
Korean War: A Fresh Perspective More than forty-five years after shipping out to fight in Korea, the author gains new insight into what the war had been all about. |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2004 John M. Taylor |
World War II: 101st Airborne Division Participate in Operation Overlord In their baptism of fire, the green paratroopers of General Maxwell Taylor's 101st Airborne Division performed like seasoned veterans in Operation Overlord. |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known." |
Vietnam Alfred Rascon |
Alfred Rascon: A Case of Forgotten Valor In February 2000, 33 years after medic Alfred Rascon saved two lives in action in War Zone D, he finally received the Medal of Honor. |
World War II June 8, 2004 Michael Haskew |
Holding the Line Along Hell's Highway As the 101st secured Eindhoven and Veghel at the start of Operation Market-Garden, its battles in Holland were only just beginning. |
Vietnam Bernard B. Fall |
Dien Bien Phu: A Battle to Remember Fifty years ago, the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh, in one of the 20th century's most decisive battles. |
World War II June 2005 Eric Hammel |
Okinawa: The Last Landing The American invasion of Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault of World War II. It was also the last. |
World War II Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable. |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2006 Bernd Horn |
Surviving the Devil's Cauldron It was their ability to overcome their daunting environment that set WWII parachutists apart. |
World War II August 25, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Ambitious Airborne Assault: Operation Market Garden It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
Letter Tet in Bien Hoa and Long Binh... An Hoa Combat Base, Revisited... M-24 Chaffee Light Tank... etc. |