Vietnam at 50 | 80th Anniversary

Infantrymen, of the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry bandage a wounded soldier after an American-fired mortar round fell short and exploded in the midst of the company.

1966: Troops and protests increase along with strategy concerns against a determined enemy

It was the year of the reality check, when Americans and their own government began to realize just what they faced in Vietnam — a resourceful and tenacious enemy, quarrelsome allies and an Asian society whose complexity they could barely understand.

Vietnam War helicopter pilot to get Medal of Honor

A Huey helicopter pilot from the Vietnam War will become the latest recipient of the Medal of Honor on Monday.

Gary Michael Rose receives the Distinguished Service Cross from Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, for heroism during Operation Tailwind.

Green Beret medic could be next Vietnam War MOH recipient

The story of Green Beret Gary Michael Rose’s heroism is an epic of classified warfare and a stinging media scandal, but it might soon end with a Medal of Honor.

On Monday, July 18, 2016, President Barack Obama awarded retired Army Lt. Col. Charles Kettles the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in Vietnam.

'Near the end of the day, things didn’t get any better'

Eight soldiers, stranded in a dry riverbed in Vietnam, faced a grim fate as they watched U.S. gunships and other air power disappear from the sky.

Vietnam battle

Pfc. Ron Fuller of Indianapolis, Ind., his head bandaged after being hit by shrapnel and his AR-15 at the ready, watches for the enemy from atop an armored personnel carrier.

Pfc. A.B. Grantham, foreground, and other wounded Marines receive medical attention as they are evacuated on a tank during the fierce fighting of the Tet offensive. Grantham, an 18-year-old from Mobile, Ala., was unconscious and struggling to breathe after being shot in the chest.

VIDEO| Vietnam veteran A.B. Grantham talks about the Battle of Hue

During the Battle of Hue in February, 1968, 18-year-old U.S. Marine Pfc. A.B. Grantham of Mobile, Ala., was shot in the chest by a North Vietnamese soldier.

Commander Richard M. Bellinger of aircraft carrier Oriskany's Fighter Squadron 162 relates how he destroyed a North Vietnamese MiG-21 on Oct. 9, 1966.

Rolling Thunder escalated US involvement in Vietnam, pulled ground troops into combat

In 1964, Keith Connolly was a young Air Force pilot and was among the first Americans to fly sorties in the F-100 Super Sabre fighter bomber targeting the North Vietnamese communist insurgency.