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4 days ago · Following the massacre a Pentagon task force called the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group (VWCWG) investigated alleged atrocities by U.S. troops against South Vietnamese civilians and created a formerly secret archive of some 9,000 pages (the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files housed by the National Archives and Records Administration ...
1 day ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
- Ronald H. Spector
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1 day ago · Murder and rape. PFC John D. Potter Jr. Hospitalman John R. Bretag PFC James H. Boyd Jr. Sergeant Ronald L. Vogel. On 23 September 1966, a nine-man ambush patrol from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, left Hill 22, northwest of Chu Lai. Private First Class John D. Potter Jr. took effective command of the patrol.
May 18, 2024 · Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780521869119; 542pp.; Price: £20.00. Back at the end of the 1980s, when I was a lowly teaching assistant at the Pennsylvania State University, I had the good fortune to work on an undergraduate course on the Vietnam War directed by the great ...
4 days ago · Vietnam Center and Archive. Over 2.7 million pages of scanned materials: documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps and collection finding aids. Vietnam Project : The Oral History Project. "The mission of the OHP is to create and preserve a more complete record of the wars in ...
- Kelly L. Smith
- 2009
4 days ago · Prosecuting war crimes. Typically, domestic courts are responsible for prosecuting war crimes. However, if the country is unable to prosecute, other institutions such as international, mixed and hybrid tribunals can step in. The last resort to prosecuting war crimes can be handled by the ICC. Based in the Hague, Netherlands, the ICC was ...
6 days ago · An anti-war protester places a flower in the gun of a soldier during the March on The Pentagon, October 21, 1967. Photo by Bernie Boston. An American soldier sets fire to a Vietnamese dwelling during the My Lai massacre, March 16, 1968. Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a swampy area, 1969.
