An NVA soldier and his son hid in the jungle for 40 years The Vietnam War lasted for a total of 20 years, officially coming to an end in 1975. But for so many, the war continued for long after ...

Forced to eject from the damaged attack aircraft, he was soon captured by the enemy forces, interrogated and sent to Hỏa Lò Prison, better known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” Alvarez was both the first ...

By the end of 1967, the Communist cause in the Vietnam War was in deep trouble ... led to bloody repulses of the North Vietnamese army (NVA), which had started intervening on the battlefield ...

Ten thousand NVA seized the heart of the city ... In the book’s epilogue, Bowden writes, “the battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. . . . As some ...

NVA tanks were also to be used- something that was rare at this point in the war. The artillery attacks ... and move half of the US Army's mobile reserve in Vietnam to the area.