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 ...

Harrison told writer Maureen Cleave that he thought about the war in Vietnam every day and he thought it was wrong. “Anything to do with war is wrong,” he said, as recorded in the book George Harrison ...

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 ...

South Vietnam, October 1966: A Marine helicopter lands on the hill landing zone to bring supplies and evacuate the wounded. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the Vietnam War? Subscribe to ...

A paratrooper officer reflected upon his Vietnam service and the time he spent with Bob Hope and other celebrities there to entertain the troops serving there. “I traveled the Bob Hope Show in 1966,” ...

In March 1965, the United States became involved in the Vietnam War to prevent communism from spreading to that recently divided country’s southern half. That same year, a nationwide protest movement ...

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 War Army veteran Harry Metzler pays respects to men he served with in the 1st Infantry Division at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, November 11, 2024. Credit - Tom ...

“Turning Point: The Vietnam War” opens with Brooklyn-born Scott Camil telling his piece of the American story. Camil says his stepfather was involved in the John Birch Society and hammered into him ...

April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of South Vietnam and the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The toll it took on both North and South was enormous: 1.1 million ...