Before we delve into the American air aces’ individual bios, a note about the number-crunching methods for the Vietnam air war is in order: all of these American aces flew as members of two-man ...

With its lush landscapes and stunning tropical beaches, it is hard to accept that the region was the setting of fierce fighting during the Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this coming April.

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

Police arrested a Los Angeles man accused of killing a Vietnam War veteran in a Dec. 22 hit-and-run in Santa Monica, officials announced Friday. The fatal crash took place at about 6:40 p.m. on ...

Two soldiers will be awarded the Medal of Honor for their battlefield bravery during the Vietnam War: Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David heroically defended a firebase in Vietnam against an overwhelming ...

The election of 1976 was the first presidential election since the end of the Vietnam War. The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the ...

Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Due to costs and safety concerns, Vietnam shelved a plan to build two nuclear power plants in 2016, but now hopes to become energy-sufficient ...

The rest of the country will now, too, as Nelson and Kenneth David, who also fought in the Vietnam War, are the latest recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for ...

President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have ... other soldiers who served in Vietnam -- Pvt.

Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr., who served in the Vietnam War, was the commander of a Huey helicopter conducting a search-and-destroy reconnaissance mission in June 1966 when it was struck by a large ...

BJP and Congress engaged in a war of words following allegations that Rahul Gandhi flew to Vietnam during the national mourning period for former PM Manmohan Singh. BJP’s Amit Malviya accused ...

Fort Hood was renamed in honor of him on May 9, 2023. After an armed helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War on June 5, 1966, Army Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. from Rocky Mount, North Carolina ...