General Vo Nguyen Giap, chief architect and strategist of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), had succeeded brilliantly in dispersing the French Expeditionary Force widely throughout Vietnam ...

In fact, Moore’s battalion, the 1st of the 7th Cavalry, had landed within strolling distance of three regiments of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN)—the regular army of North Vietnam.

WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

The Marines realized the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) would not be pushed out of the province without a fight, so they called in the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines to reinforce the American position.

He believed inflicting irreplaceable casualties on the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and its guerrilla fighters, the Viet Cong (VC), was the key to winning. By the end of 1967, however ...

Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC, and People's Army of Vietnam, or PAVN, during the Vietnam War, such as the ambush scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994 ...

The South Vietnamese communists were well practiced in the latter, but when soldiers of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) began making their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in growing numbers ...

Fifty years ago, in the last weeks of December 1972, the United States military carried out one of the most brutal and barbaric attacks on a civilian population in history. Beginning December 18 ...

Kenneth David, shown here during an MOH ceremony Jan. 3, and Kenneth Kays were awarded Medals of Honor for their actions at the battle of Firebase Maureen during the Vietnam War. (Henry Villarama ...