SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the ...

But once Washington and Hanoi got on board, bigger problems were tackled, starting with Da Nang Airport, a former American military base near the old dividing line between North and South Vietnam.

Near the end of the war in Vietnam, an American-built Northrop F-5 fighter in South Vietnamese markings dropped bombs on the South Vietnamese Independence ...

Time now for StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative ... ROXANN SMITHERS: Where were you stationed when you went to Vietnam? H SMITHERS: Da Nang. And at that point, we had about 350, 400,000 troops ...

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on ...

Southeast Asia is still riddled with unexploded American bombs and effects of Agent Orange, both of which USAID programs were helping to mitigate.

As of this week, we have officially arrived at our home base in Da Nang. We will stay here for the next seven weeks, studying and taking classes with our USU professors at the American University in ...

Located in the Quang Nam Province of Central Vietnam, Hoi An is now one of Vietnam’s hottest tourist destinations.

This week, we take a trip back in time to 1965! The #1 song in the U.S. this week was “My Girl” by The Temptations. The Soviet Union conducted a ...

At first glance, they look like quilts. But the 12 quilts presented to Vietnam era veterans from Manteca on Sunday afternoon are more than just quilts.