At 3:00 a.m. on January 31, 1968, Bien Hoa Air Base was hit in one of the most dangerous opening blows of the Tet Offensive.

In his strongest attack yet on President Johnson's Vietnam policies, Kennedy said "it is time for the truth - time to drop the mask of official illusion" which he said had been shattered by Communist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese launched an attack ...

TOKYO — Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon hinted Friday that the war in Vietnam should be extended to the communist north. Nixon, who arrived in Tokyo Thursday on a leg of his 24-day tour of the ...

WASHINGTON – As the air raid sirens and mortar blasts went off, medical evacuation crews dropped the wounded off at a hospital near the demilitarized zone. Young nurses worked around-the-clock to ...

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 ...