Vietnam War - Facts, Battles, Pictures & Videos - History.com. Vietnam War. Facts, information and articles about The Vietnam War U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook (Vietnam War) 001 Vietnam War Facts Dates Location South Vietnam North Vietnam Cambodia Laos Result North Vietnamese Victory Troop Strength South Vietnam: 850,00 United States: 540,000 South Korea: 50,000 Others: 80,000 plus Casualties South Vietnam: 200,000 – 400,000 civilians 170,000-220,000 military Over 1 million wounded United States: 58,200 dead 300,000 wounded North Vietnam: 50,000 plus civilian dead 400,000-1 million military dead. Vietnam War Articles Explore articles from the History Net archives about Vietnam War » See all Vietnam War Articles Vietnam War summary: Summary of the Vietnam War: The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War, 1954–1975. The Vietnam War was the longest in U.S. history until the Afghanistan War (2002-2014).
Casualties in the Vietnam War Casualties for the Republic of South Vietnam will never be adequately resolved. North Vietnam, South Vietnam. The My Lai Cases. Vietnam War soldiers. Uk.businessinsider. Tortured in notorious ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ 11 GIs were unbreakable. On September 9, 1965, Navy Cmdr. James Bond Stockdale was flying his A-4 Skyhawk on a mission over North Vietnam, just days after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, when his plane took fire and hurtled down. Forced to eject with seconds to spare, he landed with severe injuries: his left leg bent sideways by 60 degrees and his kneecap smashed; his left shoulder dislocated, rendering his arm useless; his back, he thought, likely was broken.
Modal Trigger Stockdale was quickly discovered by villagers, who beat him and dragged him through the streets until he was delivered to his ultimate destination: the Hoa Lo prison, or, as it was derisively known among the American POWs held there, the Hanoi Hilton. Twenty-five months later, Stockdale — who, as CAG (Commander of the Air Group) was the highest-ranking naval officer in captivity — would be moved, along with 10 other American POWs, to an even more remote prison site they called Alcatraz. Things did not go according to plan. On Feb. 11, 1965, Lt. Vietnam - a list by ThagaugeMinx. The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of. 11-16-03 tags: Vietnam War by Nick Turse Mr. Turse is a Columbia University graduate student completing a dissertation on American war crimes during the Vietnam War.
On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched a four-day series of investigative reports exposing a string of atrocities by an elite, volunteer, 45-man "Tiger Force" unit of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division over the course of seven months in 1967. The Blade goes on to state that in 1971 the Army began a four and a half year investigation of the alleged torture of prisoners, rapes of civilian women, the mutilation of bodies and killing of anywhere from nine to well over one hundred unarmed civilians, among other acts. The articles further report that the Army's inquiry concluded that eighteen U.S. soldiers committed war crimes ranging from murder and assault to dereliction of duty. Related LinksSeymour Hersh, "Uncovered" (New Yorker) ABC News Report Fred G Welfare - 7/23/2009 Mr.
Mr. F.H. F.H. TomDispatch. What War Movies Tell Us About the History of Vietnam. War movies probably shouldn't serve as historical documents but - for better or worse - the truth is that they do. Our culture is one that watches films, then assumes what we know about history based off the films that we've seen. Vietnam, specifically, has been warped by Hollywood films. As Vietnam surges further into our past, and as increasingly fewer Americans are able to remember the Vietnamese conflict through their own memories, we're left to a collection of films to do the remembering for us.
Unfortunately, this is going to be a national memory stained with inaccuracies, errors, and mistakes. So what does Hollywood teach us about Vietnam? First and foremost, that American soldiers in Vietnam routinely killed civilians. Civilians undoubtedly were killed by U.S. soldiers. The second thing we've been told about Vietnam from the movies? Third, we've been told by innumerable movies that veterans were spit on when returning home. Search and destroy. US soldiers search Vietnamese homes for Vietcong guerrillas. Search and Destroy, Seek and Destroy, or even simply S&D, refers to a military strategy that became a large component of the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. The idea was to insert ground forces into hostile territory, search out the enemy, destroy them, and withdraw immediately afterward. The strategy was the result of a new technology, the helicopter, which resulted in a new form of warfare, the fielding of air cavalry,[1] and was thought to be ideally suited to counter-guerrilla jungle warfare.
The complementary conventional strategy, which entailed attacking and conquering an enemy position, then fortifying and holding it indefinitely, was known as "clear and hold" or "clear and secure. " Malaya[edit] The British conducted search and destroy operations in effort to flush out communist insurgents in the jungles during the early years of the Malayan Emergency. Vietnam[edit] Search and destroy missions had many flaws. Myths of the Vietnam War, Part 3: Age, race and class - National Conservative Politics. I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway I done two tours of duty in Vietnam-- “Copperhead Road,” Steve Earle Songs like “Copperhead Road” and CCR’s “Fortunate Son,” not to mention numerous award-winning Hollywood movies, perpetuate stubborn Vietnam War myths about the American soldiers who fought and their age, race and class.
These myths appeal to anti-war leftists who can only bring themselves to admire “victims” rather than heroes. However, the statistics concerning the age, race and class of the average American soldier who fought in Vietnam contradict the Left’s treasured myths. You’d think self-described peace-lovers would welcome the news that fewer young working class men, and fewer African Americans, had been Vietnam War “victims” than previously thought. Veteran B.G. “Nobody's ever telling the real story of the black man in Vietnam,” Burkett claimed in one interview. THE SERIES: Elite unit savaged civilians in Vietnam. It was an elite fighting unit in Vietnam - small, mobile, trained to kill. Known as Tiger Force, the platoon was created by a U.S. Army engaged in a new kind of war - one defined by ambushes, booby traps, and a nearly invisible enemy.
Tiger Force soldiers fan out while patrolling the Song Ve Valley in a 1967 photo taken by a former platoon member. The unit committed an untold number of atrocities in the valley as part of a seven-month campaign of terror. Promising victory to an anxious American public, military leaders in 1967 sent a task force - including Tiger Force - to fight the enemy in one of the most highly contested areas of South Vietnam: the Central Highlands. But the platoon's mission did not go as planned, with some soldiers breaking the rules of war. Women and children were intentionally blown up in underground bunkers.
Two soldiers tried to stop the killings, but their pleas were ignored by commanders. The Tiger Force case is different. Until now. The 5 Best Documentaries about the Vietnam War. Vietnam (1969) Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Hỏa Lò Prison. The Hanoi Hilton in a 1970 aerial surveillance photo. Coordinates: The Hỏa Lò Prison was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam War when it was sarcastically known to American prisoners of war as the "Hanoi Hilton". The prison was demolished during the 1990s, though the gatehouse remains as a museum. French era[edit] The French name "Maison Centrale" above the gate of Hỏa Lò Museum reconstruction of French era prisoners in Hỏa Lò The name Hoa Lo, commonly translated as "fiery furnace" or even "Hell's hole",[1] also means "stove".
The prison was built in Hanoi by the French, in dates ranging from 1886–1889[1] to 1898[2] to 1901,[3][4] when Vietnam was still part of French Indochina. The central urban location of the prison also became part of its early character. Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954[edit] Vietnam War[edit] Notable inmates[edit] Post-war accounts[edit] See also[edit] Alcatraz Gang.
My Lai Massacre - The Vietnam War. My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of as many as 500 unarmed civilians, in which most of them were women, children, infants, and elderly people, in My Lai, South Vietnam on March 16, 1968 during the Vietnam War. The massacre was committed by U.S army soldiers of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, America Division. The soldiers were on the “search & destroy” mission to root out the Viet Cong who were thought to hide in My Lai – a hamlet of Son My Village. Yet they encountered no enemy fighters at all. In fact, no single shot was fired at the Charlie Company soldiers. The mission’s target 48th NLF Battalion was nowhere near the hamlet. The massacre was covered up for more than a year until Ridenhour – a soldier of 11th Brigade penned his concern about what happened in My Lai to Congress, leading to a special investigation into the event.
The My Lai massacre became a turning point in the U.S public perception of the Vietnam war. Viet Cong - Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (Vietnamese: Việt cộng, listen), or National Liberation Front (NLF), was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975). It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi.
Names Edit Relationship with Hanoi History Origin Edit By the terms of the Geneva Accord (1954), which ended the Indochina War, France and the Viet Minh agreed to a truce and to a separation of forces. Launches "armed struggle" Logistics and equipment Tet offensive See also. What were North Vietnamese tactics? - The Vietnam War. Facing the most powerful nation in the world, the North Vietnamese wisely chose to wage a war of attrition.
They planned to make a long, bloody, and expensive war for the U.S. This strategy’s purpose was to turn American public opinion against the American involvement, forced them to leave Indochina so the North Vietnam Army (NVA) could conduct major offensives against the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The North Vietnamese’s Military Strategy was divided in three phases: Viet Cong Establishment Firstly, they began to prepare, organize their forces. The National Liberation Front (NLF) was a political organization and army first established in South Vietnam in 1954. In 1958, NLF became under a single command structure set up from North Vietnam. In the beginning, the NLF was weak and disorganized, but then Hanoi decided to construct a logistical system that ran from North to South Vietnam for better support. Guerilla Warfare Conventional Warfare.
Famous Myths about the Vietnam War | Famous Things, People and Events. Famous Myths about the Vietnam War 08/06/13 at 12:14 am Five years after the division of Vietnam in accordance with the Geneva Accord, the Vietnam War started in 1959. North Vietnam was a communist government headed by Ho Chi Minh, while in the south, the Democratic government was headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, called DRV, and the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, better known as Viet Cong, united to implement communism on the national scale. This united front was opposed by Republic of Vietnam, better known as South Vietnam RVN.
It was in fact instituted by U.S. and was actively backed to help geurillas fight against the united front in order to prevent the spread of communism. The Vietnam War was, in fact, an indirect war between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. 1. President Dwight D. 2. Vietnam War It is a myth that the Vietnam War was not as intense as projected by the media. 3.
Kim Phuc 4. 5. U.S. anti-Vietnam War protesters. The Wandering Soul - Vietnam Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Another official tape coded number 6 is entitled “Come home to your family that fears you will die.” The message is 180 second long. The first 20 seconds is the sound of women and children crying. Then two announcers speak: There is then 20 seconds of children playing and laughing. The tape ends with 20 second of crying sounds. One wartime news story tells of the operation at Fire Support Base (FSB) Chamberlain. Sometimes the Wandering Soul tape was used in conjunction with other sounds to multiply the fear in the heart of the enemy. Captain Albert Yanus of the 5th Special Operations Squadron played the Wandering Soul tape from a HC-47d flying out of Bien Hoa AFB. He sent me a picture of the tape and the letter of instruction that accompanied it. The instruction sheet is from the II Field Force , 6th Psychological Operations Battalion, dated 24 June 1968.
Raymond Deitch, former commander of the U.S. It was not only the Vietnamese that were superstitious. Buddhist funeral music. Robert H. The History of the Vietnam War (1959-1975) Civilian Killings Went Unpunished. The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam's central coast. They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened his bandoliers and lighted a cigarette. Just then, the voice of a lieutenant crackled across the radio. He reported that he had rounded up 19 civilians, and wanted to know what to do with them. Henry later recalled the company commander's response: Kill anything that moves.Henry stepped outside the hut and saw a small crowd of women and children.
Moments later, the 19 villagers lay dead or dying. Back home in California, Henry published an account of the slaughter and held a news conference to air his allegations. Retired Brig. By then, Gen. Pvt. Staff Sgt. Vietnam Veterans Recount Their War Experiences | Watch Vietnam War Stories Online. A personalized PBS video experience is only a few clicks away.
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