vietnam war

". . . a multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls for peace and justice"--Provided by publisher.

The Medal of Honor is America's highest award for valor in combat. This volume provides an in-depth look at four of America's greatest heroes. Their heroic actions earned them the Medal of Honor. Surprisingly, they were all raised in the same small town of Pueblo, Colorado. The men include: The Fighter-- Bill Crawford-- World War II, The Captain-- Carl Sitter-- Korea, The Lieutenant-- Jerry Murphy-- Korea, The Green Beret-- Drew Dix-- Vietnam. This educational program is designed to inspire viewers to think critically about and reflect on themes of character and leadership while also learning about important historical events.

Describes the technology used during the Vietnam War including different types of vehicles, artillery, explosives, chemical warfare, and more.

The experience of being a naval aviator during the Vietnam War in the 1960's.

Historians and ordinary Americans have struggled to understand how and why the United States lost the Vietnam War. This book argues that the outcome of the war rested as much on General Vo Nguyen Giap's brilliant and innovative protracted war strategy as on American mistakes. Giap achieved victory in two anti-colonial struggles---first against France (1946-1954), and then against the United States (1954-1975). Giap, a legend of modern military history, was among the fist to realize that war could be won against superior military forces by exploiting the enemy's political and psychological weaknesses. He died in 2013 at the age of one hundred and one.

This is an epic, never-before-told true story of a North Vietnamese Army attack and how the men of this nearly overrun Fire Base survived. In the early morning hours of April 1, 1970, more than four hundred North Vietnamese soldiers charged out into the open and tried to over-run FSB Illingworth. The battle went on, mostly in the dark, for hours. Exposed ammunition canisters were hit and blew up, causing a thunderous explosion inside the FSB that left dust so thick it jammed the hand-held weapons of the GIs. Much of the combat was hand-to-hand. In all, twenty-four Americans lost their lives and another fifty-four were wounded. Nearly one hundred enemy bodies were recovered. It was one of the most vicious small unit firefights in the history of U.S. forces in Vietnam.

The story of a handful of pilots who flew unarmored aircraft within the range of enemy weapons to support troops on the ground during the Vietnam War.

While serving aboard a US Air Force rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. Robinson was a POW for 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps. No enlisted man in American military history has been held as a prisoner of war longer than Robinson.

Vietnam, 1965: on July 24, a USAF F-4 Phantom jet was shot down out of the sky by a mysterious and lethal weapon. It turned out to be a Soviet SA-2 surface missile (SAM) launched by Russian "advisors" to North Vietnam. As the U.S. tried to counterattack, they realized that the SAMs were the deadliest threat in military history and that Soviet technology might win the war. The Pentagon ordered a top secret program called Wild Weasel I to counter the SAMs. A small group of maverick fighter pilots and Electronic Warfare Officers volunteered to fly behind enemy lines to eliminate the SAMs threat. Those who survived the fifty percent casualty rate would revolutionize warfare forever.