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How much did you Trust your “Inner Voice” in Vietnam?
Just like the commercial for Dos Equis Beer, Rev. Bill McDonald is a most interesting man. He is a Vietnam Veteran and was a crew-chief/door-gunner on a Huey helicopter for the famed “Tomahawks” –...
View ArticleReaction to Ken Burns’“The Vietnam War” documentary
My friend, RL Del Vecchio, contacted me after posting my article about the NVA / VC atrocities of the Vietnam War to inform me that none of what I posted was even mentioned in Ken Burns’ documentary...
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What was the French death toll in their Vietnam War?
I found this article interesting and thought to share these facts with you. It is also information that I never considered and if asked could not respond. So here are the facts about French losses...
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The search for a soldiers’ identity in 1968 TET photos
Shell-shocked: Anthony Loyd goes in search of the Vietnam War veterans photographed by Don McCullin The award-winning Times war correspondent has spent two years tracking down the traumatised young men...
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Trial by Fire – A Helicopter Pilot During the Vietnam War (Guest Blog)
First Person by Captain Thomas A. Pienta, U.S. Army (ret.) November 27, 1968. It was Thanksgiving Day back home in Ohio, but it wasn’t Thanksgiving in Vietnam. It would prove to be one of the most...
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Why won’t Americans forget about the Vietnam War?
“…we killed 26 times more than they did and we still lost.” This is a question that Mr.G. William Davenport, former Administrative Law Judge (1994-2015), chose to answer on Quora. Here’s what he had to...
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My Lai: ‘A Stain on the Army’
My friend, Joe Galloway, found this article by Nancy Montgomery in a current edition of Stars and Stripes and posted it on his Facebook page. It’s long article on the My Lai anniversary. Ia Drang...
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Tragedy at Dong Ha (Guest Post)
Jim Van Straten is a retired Army guy, almost 85 years old, and the most memorable year of his life was spent in I Corps where he served as the Senior Medical Advisor to the ARVN. He was there early in...
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The Day I Met Charley (Guest Post)
David Ramsey wrote the following as a comment after one of my earlier posts on May 13, 2013. I laughed while reading it and thought you’d all like to laugh too. During the war, many basecamp residents...
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Friendly Fire during the Vietnam War
How many casualties occurred because of friendly fire during the Vietnam war? Nobody knows for sure. No one was keeping count, not all incidents were reported or even recognized as friendly fire, and...
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Claymore Alley (Guest blog)
The following story was written by [Jeff Drake] before his investigation into U.S. friendly fire involvement in Vietnam. It affected him deeply, and he has only recently come to terms with the...
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In search of Calumet’s lost soldier
The remains of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Marshall F. Kipina of Calumet, Michigan have been recovered and identified on April 6, 2018. Staff Sgt. Kipina went missing on a night surveillance mission in...
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Why So Many Vets Are Angry At Jane Fonda (Guest Post)
Jane Fonda’s Broadcasts on Radio Hanoi Co-authors: Dr. Roger Canfield, R.J. Del Vecchio From July 8 – 22, 1972, the American actress Jane Fonda visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the...
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U.S. Ship Rescued South Vietnam’s Navy after Saigon Fell
The USS Kirk carried out one of the most significant humanitarian missions in U.S. military history. Yet the story went untold for 35 years. Correspondent Joseph Shapiro and producer Sandra Bartlett of...
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SOG/NVA Meet For First Time since the War
By John Stryker Meyer 01.29.2018 The most elite warriors of the secret war during the Vietnam War, Green Berets and the North Vietnamese Army’s highly-trained killer teams met in Southeast Asia last...
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History and Meaning of Military Rifle Salutes (Guest Post)
by John Hages as it appeared in the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 154 – Boo Coo News, January, 2018. U.S. military salutes are steeped in tradition, some dating back hundreds of years. However,...
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HUMINT: A Continuing Crisis? (Guest Post)
W. R. Baker wrote this extraordinary article about his “Human Intelligence” Group in I-Corps during the later part of the Vietnam War. After the failure of Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos, the South...
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A Perth Boy’s Perspective on the Vietnam War
As a kid growing up in Perth, Western Australia in the 1960s and ’70s, I didn’t learn about the Vietnam War from classroom history lessons. Vietnam and the broader Indochina War were on our radio and...
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The Price of War: Wondering One Time Or Another If You Would Ever Make It...
Many Vietnam Veterans know who Bernie Weisz is and enjoy interfacing with him on Facebook. As a historian specializing in the Vietnam War, he has, over the years, shared war photos, articles, Vietnam...
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Battlefield Chronicles: Into Cambodia (Guest post)
My website is lacking in articles about Americans fighting in both Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. I’ve recently come across one such story and thought to share it with you here. It’s written...
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