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2 days ago · From 20 January to 14 April 1968, 30,000 to 40,000 NVA forces surrounded 6,000 U.S. Marines and ARVN at the remote hilltop outpost of Khe Sanh in the northwest corner of South Vietnam. Using artillery and airpower, including B‐52 strikes, the United States eventually broke the siege and forced an NVA withdrawal.
Apr 25, 2024 · A refugee clutches her baby as she is helicoptered out of harm’s way. Following a peace agreement in 1973, the Vietnam War finally ended in 1975 when North Vietnamese forces took Saigon and ...
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Apr 24, 2024 · The Vietnam War, a tumultuous and divisive conflict that raged from 1955 to 1975, continues to captivate and haunt the collective memory of nations involved. These colorized photos offer a fresh ...
May 9, 2024 · In 1975 South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North. The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.
- Ronald H. Spector
1 day ago · After the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, North Vietnam emerged victorious in a brutal war that decimated the country. After American armed forces fled in disgrace, members of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in the South were incarcerated in detention camps for years on end, forced to perform heavy labor to help rebuild the shattered nation.
May 9, 2024 · Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) was founded in 1967 and quickly became one of the most visible antiwar groups of the 1960s and 1970s. This archive, containing 21,477 pages of documents received in response to VVAW’s Freedom of Information Act requests, chronicles the group’s organizing activities across the country.
3 days ago · v. t. e. The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.
