A women's unit of Vietnamese Traffic Police march during a military parade in Ho Chi Minh City marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War. (Chris Trinh / For The Times) Last fall, Vietnam ...
On a Sunday morning 55 years ago in Chu Lai, Vietnam, retired Army Col. Elizabeth G. Gorman Jr. had just sent the nurses under her command off to church when a frantic call came over the radio. A ...
HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule on Tuesday, with its largest military parade in decades, unprecedented cash handouts and ...
BELL COUNTY – Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Annie Riggins was one of an estimated 11,000 military women stationed in Vietnam during America’s decade-long conflict there. Assigned to work in ...
HANOI — Dozens of young Vietnamese women lined up for hours last month to catch a glimpse of “cool” troops marching through Hanoi in a huge military parade. But it was not their own soldiers they were ...