Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War's siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...

Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

This week marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the day Lyle Tate from Portland was killed in action on Hill 778 near Khe Sanh. Having just recently survived one of the most challenging battles of the ...

Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. The 77-day siege, which began 50 years ago tomorrow, began when an isolated American combat base ...

Arthur “Art” Hall, a Staten Island, N.Y., native, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1966 and his service during the Vietnam War earned a Navy Commendation Medal with Combat “V” and the Vietnam Cross of ...

The 77-day siege, which began 50 years ago tomorrow, began when an isolated American combat base was surrounded by tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. Although the US soldiers grimly held on ...