This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War — a period the country commemorates through poignant museums ...

The M42 Duster’s relentless barrage packed a punch as devastating as the bone-chilling fear it sparked in the Viet Cong ...

A mock-up of the Viet Cong prison camp is there to tell the story what began on the night of Jan. 5, 1968, when Frank Anton, Robert Lewis and James Pfister flew their Huey gunship into enemy fire ...

But the Viet Cong suffered their own hardships -- from 1961 through 1975, Triet never slept in a bed once, and his men often went days without food. One such period of deprivation led directly to ...

Contrary to some histories, the term “Viet Cong,” like the war itself, was not a byproduct of the American presence in Vietnam. By Brett Reilly January 31, 2018 Credit: Wikimedia Commons / RVN ...

The names Viet Cong and ISIS may be different, but their military tactics are similar. Ditto America’s response to both. The U.S. failed in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Former Viet Cong soldier Duong Hoang Sinh remembers them well — the one time he tangled with three Swift boats (search), the Americans killed all of the insurgents in his unit except for two ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter in a jeep. End of April 1968 the VC and North Vietnamese ...