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How the USS Maddox Started the Vietnam War
The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...
50 years after fall of Saigon, Vietnam can't heal by erasing half its past | Opinion
The Vietnamese government must acknowledge the suffering of those who had fought for South Vietnam ‒ not as enemies, but as ...
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THE VIETNAM WAR
The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or ... 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US Congress then passed, with only two dissenting ...
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Local vets reflect on Vietnam War’s toll
50-caliber machine gun and also taught Vietnamese sailors how to operate the boat's twin 60-71 Detroit Diesel engines. The ceremony remembered the 151 Nevada servicemen and women who died as a result ...
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Library of Congress still collecting Vietnam vets’ memories 50 years after war ended
Vietnam veterans’ recordings, videos, photographs, drawings, letters and other documents are stored by the Library of ...
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Two ancient boats unearthed when community digs pond to raise fish in Vietnam. See them
A community in northern Vietnam got to test their archaeological skills when a fish pond construction project turned into an excavation following the discovery of buried ancient boats. Members of ...