Only a handful of Vietnam War movies have won Best Picture at the Oscars, including Platoon and The Deer Hunter, but which is ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. For decades, a congressionally-created project through the ...

CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...

Steve Kwasiborski singlehandedly brought in more than $100,000 for the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which debuted ...

To pick up from the end of my collaborator’s dive into the history of activism on campus against the Vietnam War, it’s time to go further and answer the next question: What should we make of ...

The photographer credited with taking the photo, then an AP staff member, won the Pulitzer Prize for it. But a former AP ...

For decades, Ha Toung kept quiet about his experience in Southeast Asia. Toung, a former officer of the Army of the Republic ...

April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and the end of a war that has profoundly shaped Vietnam and its place in the world. Today’s Vietnam is a world away from 1975; it is a young ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. 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.

Armed with a three-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo stick with a slit cut on one end, a 14-inch World War II Japanese bayonet, and a silenced .38 Special revolver pistol, Nicholas “Nick” Sanza was deep ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Alcohol abuse during the Vietnam War was a significant problem for Australian troops who were supplied with the equivalent of more than five cans of beer per soldier per day ...