Vietnam War Pictures - So We Remember
Collection of Vietnam War Photos
American involvement in the Vietnam War started as early as 1950 with military advisors sent to Vietnam. American troops were in Vietnam from 1965-1975. The United States became involved with the purpose of assisting the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) in their battle against a North Vietnamese communist takeover. The strategy was initially containment. Also known as the Vietnam Conflict and the Second Indochina War, millions of lives were lost. The war was mostly in Vietnam, but also inc...

War Stories From Vietnam
Corpsman - Navy: Attached to Marine Battalions
There are a million war stories from Vietnam but what was it really like? I wasn't there. I was 3 and safely at home with my mother as she worried constantly about my dad. He was a Corpsman (Navy) attached to a Marine Battalion during the Vietnam War. While I will never know all that he saw and did, he has shared some of what it was like being a corpsman in Vietnam.

Vietnam War
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a war in Indochina (part of south-east Asia) that raged from 1954 until 1975. It was mainly fought, on one side, by the South Vietnamese government forces aided by the United States and its allies such as Australia, and, on the other side, by guerrilla forces (the Viet Cong) (aided by the North Vietnamese government) along with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). The war began in 1954 after the Geneva Conference, set up to negotiate peace after the victory of the communist/...