The depiction of the Vietnam War in popular culture just isn’t for Terry Coons. He lived it, as a member of the Army’s 23 rd Infantry Division in 1969 and 1970. This memory from those 13 months has ...

Lewis Alston’s military career was over by age 19. His time as a reconnaissance scout in the U.S. Marine Corps ended after he was wounded, but he faced what turned out to be a 15-year struggle to ...

In The Advisor, Paul Tyler, a young officer on a military intelligence mission, is assigned to an experimental District Advisory team in the Mekong Delta. As the Vietnam War enters the Vietnamization ...

Larry Anderson was the executive officer for a machine gun company of 150 men during the Vietnam War. Since then, he's been a city manager for the city of Missoula, on the Missoula City Council and ...

From his pilot perch in the busy cockpit of a workhorse CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, Marine 1st Lt. Harold G. “Hal” Walker witnessed the horrors and heroics of the Vietnam War. “I was an observer, ...

The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...

A bridge has been dedicated to 1st Lt. Lee F. Clickner, among the 136 Bucks County military members killed while serving in ...

Spc. 5 James C. McCloughan was born in South Haven, Michigan, April 30, 1946. McCloughan spent his childhood in Bangor, Michigan, where his parents moved to take over a family farm. It was there that ...

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The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. These posters by Cuban artist ...

Assumed you've heard what happened to me...To make matters short, I was walking point for my platoon on the 6th of August somewhere around 10 in the morning. I hit a booby trap. It was a pressure ...