For 50th anniversary of Vietnam War ending, I traveled in Vietnam. The war's painful schisms were personal for me: I'm the son of Robert McNamara.

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied ... marking the United States's official entry in the Vietnam War. In 1974, the streaking epidemic ...

Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...

Nixon announced a plan to bring back the first of the 538,700 troops in June 1969. By 1970, the number of US troops in Vietnam had dropped to 334,600. At the same time, the ARVN’s forces grew ...

On this day in history, America’s direct intervention in the Vietnam War ended, and the last U.S. combat troops left South ...

General Westmoreland would step up the air campaign with B-52 bombers, and move half of the US Army's mobile reserve in Vietnam to the ... to properly gather their troops together for the all ...

The first major contingent of US Marines arrived in 1965. For the next ten years the USA's involvement increased. By 1968 over half a million American troops were in Vietnam and the war was ...

On March 29, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam (some advisers and others remained), ending the United ...

"It was the first time the ... In 1964, the United States had a presence in South Vietnam, but hadn't yet committed the tens of thousands of combat troops it would in the years to come.