VANG TAU, Vietnam – Under pressure from top Australian officials, Vietnam on Thursday lifted its sudden ban on veterans who had traveled to the country to mark the 50th anniversary of Australia's most ...

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A member of the USS Kitty Hawk’s ordnance crew moves bombs to planeside off the coast of Vietnam in April, 1966.

West of Pleiku, South Vietnam, Nov. 20, 1966: An unidentified 25th Infantry soldier receives communion from Chaplain (Maj.) Michael S. Filip of the Archdiocese of Detroit, at 1st Battalion, 14th ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Soldiers have long been subjected to invidious generational comparison. It’s a military rite of passage for new recruits to hear from old hands that everything from boot camp to combat was tougher ...

Eleven thousand women served in Vietnam, according to the Veteran’s Administration and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation. Elsewhere that number dips to 10,000. Another estimate, this one from ...

Australia deployed more than 60,000 military personnel in Vietnam War, of whom 521 were killed. Vietnam: Under pressure from top Australian officials, Vietnam today lifted its sudden ban on veterans ...