Three Wars. Three Heroes. One Medal of Honor. Three soldiers in World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan received the nation's highest honor.
Operation Bribie: One of the Deadliest Battles for Australian Troops in the Vietnam War When Operation Bribie ended, eight Australians were dead and 27 were wounded. The men who survived were divided over whether...
Vietnam Veterans Slam Trump's DC Arch Plans in New Lawsuit Three military veterans are at the center of legal action against the Trump administration.
An Internal Document Shows the Vietnamese Military Preparing for a Possible American War An internal document reveals Vietnam's military is preparing for a possible American war of aggression, viewing the U.S. as a...
North Vietnam's Best General Beat France at Dien Bien Phu, Then Failed With the Same Tactics Against Marines at Khe Sanh Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French...
Operation Linebacker II: The Bombing Campaign That Forced North Vietnam to the Peace Table in 1973 North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals...
The Walking Dead in Vietnam: How 1st Battalion, 9th Marines Earned the Marine Corps' Highest Casualty Rate When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight...
Life as a Vietnam War Medic: Ohio Veteran Shares His Story U.S. Army veteran Randy Ark shares his story of life a medic in Vietnam in a revealing memoir.
America’s Secret WWII OSS Mission in Vietnam to Arm Ho Chi Minh Against Japan In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to...
Why America’s Air-to-Air Kill Ratio Dropped So Much During the Vietnam War American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller...
Exclusive: John Ripley, the Marine Who Blew Up the Dong Ha Bridge, to Receive the Medal of Honor More than 50 years after hanging beneath a Vietnam bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John...
From Iraq to Iran: How Congress Handed Over War Powers to the Presidency The 9/11 attacks were a sea change in U.S. foreign policy and diminished congressional authority, with partisanship on...
Left Face Down in the Mud: How an Air Force Veteran, Amputee Found Hope A life-changing injury and having to raise three kids alone made Jason Morgan more resolute in the long run.
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
SNL Mocks Iran Conflict as Pete Hegseth Calls It a ‘Situationship’ “This isn’t a war, it’s a situationship.” SNL skewers tensions with Iran in a wild press briefing sketch starring Colin Jost...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-12/960px-hai_duong_bridge_bombing_1972.jpg?itok=Y77-8urK "A U.S. Navy LTV A-7E Corsair II (BuNo 157526, pilot Michael A. Ruth, call sign "Banjo") of Attack Squadron VA-195 Dambusters bombs the Hai Duong railway and highway bridge in North Vietnam. VA-195 was assigned to Attack Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) for a deployment to Vietnam from 17 February to 28 November 1972. On 10 May 1972, "Operation Linebacker I" commenced, the U.S. Navy's contribution to the air offensive against North Vietnam consisted of 176 attack sorties, 60% of them flown by A-7 aircraft. (Wikimedia Commons)")
