SAIGON, Jan. 31, 1968 (UPI)-Allied aircraft dive-bombed and strafed Viet Cong positions on the edge of Saigon today as the guerrillas continued to fight after raids on the U.S. Embassy, the Tan Son ...

Saigon, South Vietnam, May 10, 1968: Refugees flee burning buildings near Tan Son Nhut air base. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces started shelling more than 120 provincial capitals, towns and ...

WASHINGTON - Before he pulls the trigger, the South Vietnamese general waves his soldiers out of the way so they don't get hurt. South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, right, chief of the national ...

CROSBY — Steve Wenzel will speak about Vietnam and the 1968 presidential election at 1:30 p.m. April 14 at Unlimited Learning in Crosby. Wenzel will cover the history of the Vietnam War, its roots in ...

Vietnam was the first “living room war,” seen on TV and through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. They felt the bombs.

In January 1968, during the Lunar New Year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and ...

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

A Shau, South Vietnam, August 1968: A soldier from 1st Brigade, 101st Air Cavalry Division, smiles as he puts away a stack of mail from home and gets back to work during Operation Somerset Plain.

Near Saigon, 1968. Photograph by Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos The images changed how the world saw Vietnam, but especially how Americans saw their country, soldiers and the war itself. Tim ...