In a fierce day-long battle, the ARVN soldiers, using their new M16s, killed at least 100 of the North Vietnamese v. only 15 ARVN dead, while allied air, artillery and helicopters killed another 100.

Also unlike U.S. units, Saigon ranger, airborne and marine units often spend 60 to 90 days at a stretch out in the field. In the ARVN, a division commands only two artillery battalions v. the four ...

Object Details Creator National Museum of American History Description. This post is part two in a series. In part one, curator Frank Blazich introduced U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel James K. Redding, ...

The Marine Corps stood up a unit meant to sow "chaos and uncertainty" for its adversaries in the Pacific on Tuesday, according to a news release, adding the service's first U.S. anti-ship missile ...

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas ...

Object Details Creator National Museum of American History Description. A year ago, a visitor to the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War wrote me that an American advisor’s uniform from ...