It was in the autumn of 1965 that North Viet Nam for the first time committed the soldiers of its regular army to battle in the war in South Viet Nam. Since that bloody debut in the la Drang Valley, ...
The diplomatic flurries around the world over fresh peace probes during the past two weeks have all but obscured a grim new reality in the actual warfare in Viet Nam. The fighting so far in 1968, as ...
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The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965. Department of Labor under ...
The last three staffers in The Associated Press' Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and ...
This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, May 26, 1968. It is republished unedited in its original form. She is a pretty 16-year-old. Yesterday she was a defiant Viet Cong ...