Vietnamkriget

LRRPs had to be the best.Anything less meant certain death.When Ed Emanuel was handpicked for the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, he knew his …

After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, …

Nicknamed ""the truck killer,"" the AC-119K gunship and its counterpart, the AC-119G, were developed in the late 1960s in response to the needs of the U.S. military in Vietnam. …

This second volume of accounts by nurses who served with U.S. forces in Vietnam presents recollections of 17 women who cared for American casualties. They faced overwhelming …

"e;I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,"e; said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army …

When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a …

A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971-and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a …

Cowboy was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel. He got his nickname from the Green Berets who worked with him in the Highlands of South Vietnam in the 1960s. …

EN UFORGLEMMELIG ROMAN OM EN UNG SYGEPLEJERSKES OPLEVELSER UNDER OG EFTER VIETNAMKRIGEN. Året er 1965, og den unge sygeplejestuderende Frances "Frankie" McGrath lever et trygt liv …

A member of Light Attack Squadron 212 s "e;Rampant Raiders,"e; A-4 pilot Stephen R. Gray writes about his experiences flying combat sorties from the deck of an aircraft …