Peace negotiations also began between the warring sides, and in 1969, the first American troops began to leave Vietnam. In 1970, the conflict escalated once again as American and South Vietnamese ...

The first glimmers of public discontent emerged in American music. In 1963 Bob Dylan condemned the “Masters of War” who “hide ...

During the Vietnam War, Da Nang was a major base for both the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. The first American combat ...

April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an ...

Terry Allen is ordered to report to Vietnam. American troops ... sent to the local hospital. As the officers force protesters into the plaza outside the Commerce building, tear gas is used for the ...

On the other side of the world, excavation teams in Vietnam had been searching for the remains of Vietnamese soldiers ... they were the first to bring together Vietnamese and American veterans.

American tactics in Vietnam can be summed up by the ... a shift away from ‘military advisors’ to combat troops. In July 1965, Johnson sent another 100,000 troops, and a further 100,000 in ...

Searcy was far from the first American veteran to return ... 15 percent of the 2.7 million soldiers sent to Vietnam suffered from PTSD in 1983. Around 58,000 U.S. troops lost their lives in ...

By the mid-60s, there were 650,000 American soldiers in Vietnam. Young men were drafted and sent into the battlefield ... on board with the war effort at first, but what happened during ...