(NEXSTAR) — It’s been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War but its impact on American families continues to be felt even to this day. Nowhere are the accounts of those who fought — including ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 1969, soldiers at Ben Het Special Forces Camp in the Central Highlands near the Laotian border heard something unusual in the jungle. They had patrolled the area for ...

There have been many, many, many wars throughout human history, and so even if cinema hasn’t been around for nearly as long as wars have been, it’s fair to say that there are also many (possibly ...

American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller, more agile MiGs and losing more often than anyone expected. The decline ...

The CBU-24, a key cluster bomb during the Vietnam War era, was an unguided dispenser releasing up to 665 BLU-24/B bomblets—small, roughly baseball-sized explosives filled with steel fragments.

After months of uncertainty over U.S. aid, the defense secretary pledged that Washington would keep funding programs that help address the wounds of the Vietnam War. By Damien Cave and Tung Ngo Damien ...