North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
This nameplate was used in 1968
It's Over 1975
This nameplate was used in 1975

Vietnam War

A veteran with a mustache and blue shirt stands in front of a brown background.

‘Going in their honor’: Vietnam veterans to visit key battle sites for first time since war’s end

Veterans returning to Vietnam to tour battle sites in Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.

A little girl, hit in the shoulder by a slug from an aircraft machine gun, is tended to by a medic before being evacuated to a hospital by South Vietnamese troops.

A tale of war: There are tears, dirt, blood, irony and no favorites

There's nothing very nice about any kind of war, whether it's global or just an "untidy little war" like the battle against communism here.

Pfc. Frank Orians of Grand Rapids, Mich., escorts Secretary of Defense McNamara and his entourage on a walk into an unsecured jungle area in Vietnam.

Dawn-to-dusk days for JFK's top advisers

America's top military leaders sloshed through muddy remote villages of the strife-torn Republic of Vietnam to learn first-hand how the war against the Viet Cong is going.

Former Stars and Stripes combat correspondent Steve Stibbens at work during an ambush in Vietnam in 1963.

Marine journalist Steve Stibbens, first to cover the Vietnam War for Stars and Stripes, dies at 84

The first Stars and Stripes reporter sent to cover the Vietnam War — Marine Gunnery Sgt. Steve Stibbens — died Saturday in Dallas at age 84.

George Wallace

Wallace: Pressure North Vietnamese

George C. Wallace, the third party candidate in the 1968 presidential election, said here that President Nixon's address to the nation "left the door open for the application of more military pressure if the enemy escalates the war."

Master Sgt. Wayne Whightsil on patrol in South Vietnam, 1964.

Vietnam: No time for aching feet

This is flat country, where a man can see for miles and where an enemy can almost make death more welcome than continued marching.

A soldier is given a flower by a Vietnamese girl as the 196th Light Infantry Brigade comes ashore near the end of a long journey from Fort Devens, Mass. in August, 1966.

New unit makes 25th Division largest force

The 25th Inf. Div. became the largest U.S. combat force in Vietnam when the 196th Light Inf. Brigade arrived here Sunday to join up with the Tropic Lightning Div.