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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

DA NANG, Vietnam — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...

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 ...