In 1966, a young American journalist named Frances FitzGerald began publishing articles from South Vietnam in leading magazines, including this one. She was the unlikeliest of war correspondents—born ...

Turning Point: The Vietnam War is a five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger, that examines how the United States became involved in the civil war in Vietnam, starting in the early 1960s, ...

“The Vietnam War was such a shadow across my childhood,” Hannah says of her earliest inspiration for her new novel, “The Women.” “My friends’ fathers were serving, and in fact, my best friend’s father ...

Watson Baldwin, in the middle of the clearing, gazed skyward and spread opens his arms to guide the helicopter in to receive help from above. By Daniel Johnson Published Feb 23, 2022 9:00 AM EST I was ...

Until 1945, the Vietnamese city of Hue was the capital of the country and a shining jewel in its history. The old imperial capital stood largely untouched after 150 years, even as the United States ...

The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...

He was a helicopter pilot they called “Combat Kelly,” and in the early years of the Vietnam War, Maj. Charles Kelly set the example for the daredevil flyers who would come to be called Army “Dustoff” ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese Army tanks took Saigon, ending the U.S. offensive – and leading to a refugee crisis that led ...