Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With all higher ranks out of the fight, Sgt. Matthew Leonard took command in Vietnam. (Army) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks ...

A Vietnam veteran reflects on guerrilla warfare, mistrust between civilians and soldiers, and the long-term effects of combat ...

The last three staffers in The Associated Press' Saigon bureau, reporters Matt Franjola, left, Peter Arnett, rear, and George Esper, second from right, are joined by two North Vietnamese soldiers and ...

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 launched an attack ...

The night before 2nd Lt. William Calley shipped out of Hawaii to Vietnam, he was obliged to read his unit a list of rules regarding their behavior in a new land. The men were arrayed in a horseshoe ...

A wounded ARVN Ranger from the 52nd Ranger Battalion readies his weapon despite severe head injuries during the Battle of Dong Xoai, June 11, 1965. The Rangers fought through a Viet Cong ambush to ...

LONGMEADOW — It might be impossible for some to recall one night, 58 years ago — but Longmeadow’s William “Bim” Morey remembers every detail of disobeying his commanding officer and flying a Huey ...

COLUMBIA — Cu Chi, Vietnam, 1967. Former Army Staff Sgt. C.W. Bowman stumbled into what appeared to him to be an underground hospital and was greeted by several Viet Cong soldiers drawing their ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) – Khanh Nguyen, a South Vietnamese general who briefly gained control of the government in a coup and went on to lead a “government in exile” in California, has died. Nguyen ...