An Army captain who grew up in North Carolina and died while saving three fellow soldiers in a downed helicopter in Vietnam ...

The Americans exit the airport and are met by Major Dang Ha Thuy – a uniformed Vietnamese man, also elderly – who greets them warmly. Half a century ago, they would have exchanged gunfire; today, they ...

Fort Cavazos, in his home state, bears his name. Near Moc Hoa, in South Vietnam on June 5, 1966, Captain Hugh Nelson, a graduate of The Citadel in South Carolina, commanded a helicopter on a ...

They reveal expected hubs like Germany and Vietnam, surprising gaps in the Middle East, and the evolution of U.S. military priorities. These addresses are more than places on a map; they trace ... the ...

The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: ...

Carter was elected a Georgia state senator in 1962 before seeking the nomination to serve as the state’s governor in 1966 ... economy and the fall of South Vietnam to win the 1976 presidential ...

"It was December 26, 1966, [and the USS Bennington was] en ... "It happened on a late December afternoon 1962 in the Ashau Valley of South Vietnam. I was a captain, flying in support of the ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam ... This map gives an idea ...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War ... nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S ...