This year marks a handful of important anniversaries in the history of the Vietnam War. The United States' initial involvement in the Republic of Vietnam began in November 1955, when President Dwight ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Saturday marked National Vietnam War Veterans Day, and the Friends of the New York State Military Museum, in conjunction with the Capital District of New York Chapter of the ...

Sixty years ago this week, an incident off the coast of North Vietnam set the U.S. on a path toward a costly and, ultimately, unsuccessful war. What some were calling the Second Indochina War is ...

Hubert Van Es' photograph capturing the 1975 fall of Saigon became one of the most enduring images from the Vietnam War. (Mike Clarke/AFP via Getty Images) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the ...

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will explore the perspectives and experiences of those who lived through one of the most tumultuous times in American history with “Virginia & the Vietnam War, ...

West Manchester Township’s Linda Bean has recorded the stories of about 125 Vietnam War veterans in her 10 years with ALLVETS. So she’s well suited to summarize the stories of these veterans from York ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...

The Vietnam War was one of the most complex and controversial conflicts of the 20th century, leaving lasting scars on both countries that lived through it. Fought mostly in villages and jungles, it ...

In the late 1970s, Vietnam veteran Jan Scruggs was growing increasingly frustrated by domestic sentiment toward Vietnam veterans. While the war itself was among the most controversial conflicts the ...