His father and grandfather had served in war, so that's what ... within Delta Company, the ambush of October 17 came just three months after he arrived in Vietnam, and what mattered on that ...

In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control. April ...

(Henry Villarama/U.S. Army) For every battle in the Vietnam War, there were numerous small unit actions fought over active firebases, former firebases or any location where either side could set up an ...

during the Vietnam War, such as the ambush scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994), starring Tom Hanks, and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He covers the public ...

A military history expert gives low marks for realism to Michael J. Fox’s controversial 1989 Brian De Palma-directed Vietnam War movie.

The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... from the Americans to ambush patrols.

“I taught demolition class, ambush, counter ambush techniques ... After completing two years of service in Vietnam, Newton was discharged. He was warned the war was unpopular back home.