Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Jan. 1, 1966. Paratroopers, background, of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ...

BEFORE entering Saigon, the military traffic from Tan Son Nhut airfield slows in a choking blanket of its own exhaust. Where it crawls along to the narrow bridge in a frenzy of bicycles, pedicabs, and ...

Eureka Mayor Fred Thevenin received a special gift 53 years ago this week from Lt. Col. Ho Nhut Quan, mayor of the city of Vung Tau in South Vietnam. Vung Tau, located along the coast 75 miles from Ho ...

Kim Ki Sam ©Stars and StripesSaigon, South Vietnam, February, 1966: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey poses with a youngster at the Trung Thu School, which was built for orphaned children of ...

Saigon, January 1966: A basket and a few feet of sidewalk make up this elderly woman’s shop as she sells strawberries in downtown Saigon. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the Vietnam War?