Retrieved from long-forgotten caches, dusted down, and returned to working order, the Vietnamese battlefield was awash with the weapons of the Second World War. Like washed up Hollywood action stars, ...

A favored support gun, the 105mm howitzer used in Vietnam had seen action in World War II. Modified to improve field mobility, the guns served admirably throughout the Vietnam conflict.

Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war.

Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam War.

Rear Adm. Kenneth W. “Pete” Pettigrew’s Vietnam success made him the only Top Gun instructor to put his training to practical ...

50 caliber machine gun had been rendered obsolete by jet aircraft ... as well as the AC-47 gunship, during the Vietnam War. In these cases the M134 was part of an armament system and fired by ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

The technology of war began to change. Military aircraft became stronger, faster, and more evasive. Armored vehicles became heavier, with thicker armor. And guns became more powerful, with longer ...

Doug Hegdahl, the subject of Marc Leepson’s “The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in ...