You talk about people saying that we were baby killers, we were war pigs,” said Alphonse Ranni, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. “It’s not true.”Fifty years have ...
The USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier that saw service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ...
For example, he said, when he was leaving the ship, he was told the Valley Forge was leaving Vietnam for Australia and officers urged him to re-up for the duration of the cruise. He declined, and ...
During its last tour in the Vietnam War, the Belknap-class guided-missile cruiser USS Biddle scored what is believed to be the last enemy aircraft shootdown with hand-loaded guns in the US Navy’s ...
DoD photos. Almost as soon as The Wall went up, families came to Washington to find their sailor’s name. They’d find Panel 23, a black granite slab of the Vietnam War Memorial — widely called The Wall ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Naja Pham Lockwood sat in a corner of the last South Vietnamese ship to leave Vietnam during the harrowing chaos as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. As a multitude of people ...
My diaries included not only details of what happened, but I wrote about the attitudes and thinkings of the war,” he said.
(NEXSTAR) — As we near the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Nexstar is highlighting the veterans and families who were affected by the conflict, and finding out how they feel all these ...
In this two-part series, former U.S. Navy Seabee Mel Pierson talks about his combat duty during the Vietnam war, and his struggles with alcohol addiction after he left the service. Read more about ...