It was on March 16 1968 that the My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province where hundreds of Vietnamese ...

In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas, this Vietnamese litter bearer, responsible for helping deal with a mass ...

To the Viet Cong, a shovel is as important as a rifle ... is done by three-man teams of “volunteers”—usually village boys and girls impressed for the duty—who are expected to dig three ...

The Company was told that dozens of Viet Cong troops were passing through the area, retreating from battle after the Tet Offensive. Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air ...

The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965. Voting ends in ...