At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

It was the third attack on the base in the last five days. The Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in the Central Highlands, a missionary organization announced. The U.S. Command said enemy ...

A Viet Cong attack on Americans is typically a brief hit-and-run affair: the enemy usually runs as soon as the surprise wears off and U.S. units start hitting back with concerted firepower. The siege ...

THIS IS THE FIRST time in recorded history," a senior American official in Vietnam recently said, "that an effort is being made to rebuild a country while a war is still going on." Strange? The savage ...

Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam’s crack “Red Lightning” division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village ...

Summary and All You Need to Know: In 1964, the USNS Card, a World War II escort carrier repurposed for supply duties, was sunk in Saigon Port by a daring Viet Cong attack. Two commandos planted ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC, and ...

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 ...

First, Bain and his friend Stewart were struck by Viet Cong mortars while on nighttime guard duty and, in the aftermath of the attack, Bain held his friend as he died in his arms. Second, following a ...