An American 1st Air Cavalry helicopter airlifts supplies into a Marine outpost during Operation Pegasus in Vietnam in ...
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How Project 100,000 changed the Vietnam War draft
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military faced intense pressure to increase troop numbers without dramatically expanding the draft. In 1966, the Pentagon introduced Project 100,000, a policy that ...
Deployed in late 1966, the “Guns a Go-Go” unit quickly proved its worth in Vietnam’s unforgiving terrain. In the dense jungles of Vietnam, at a time when American and North Vietnamese forces were ...
As a young man, Lon Holmberg was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War, even protesting America’s involvement in the conflict. But when Holmberg was called to duty via the military draft, despite his ...
The Vietnam War wasn’t just fought in the dense jungles and muddy rice fields of Southeast Asia — it was felt in the homes and hearts of an entire generation. Young soldiers trudged through forests ...
In 1966, those of us who graduated high school had one thing on our minds: Am I going to get drafted into the Vietnam War? For those of us who could not afford college, it was a very real question.
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without ...
A paratrooper of the 173rd U.S. Airborne brigade crouches with women and children in a muddy canal as intense Viet Cong sniper fire temporarily pins down his unit during the Vietnamese War near Bao ...
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