WASHINGTON – As the air raid sirens and mortar blasts went off, medical evacuation crews dropped the wounded off at a hospital near the demilitarized zone. Young nurses worked around-the-clock to ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, May 26, 1968. It is republished unedited in its original form. She is a pretty 16-year-old. Yesterday she was a defiant Viet Cong ...

Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and ...

“Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities?” Walter Cronkite asked his audience in February 1968. “The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...