Was the "Death Card" in Apocalypse Now real? Discover what the Ace of Spades actually meant to soldiers in Vietnam and how it ...

“I was up forward with the mortars when the ambush hit us,” recalls the chunky Florida Negro. “There were Viet Cong everywhere—in the grass, in the trees and bushes, and in holes. The guy in front of ...

In a previous column, I wrote that one mark of past international communist military actions is an apparent disregard for civilian casualties. On Feb. 26, 1968, U.S. troops re-entered the city of Hue ...

When the French fought in Viet Nam, they called it la sale guerre—the filthy war. It has grown even more so. The scrawny Viet Cong guerrilla, who has always fought from the shadows, has become an ...