These US and Vietnamese soldiers were killed while fighting the Viet Cong near Saigon. In January 1968, the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans ... "what we saw made us shudder. Because we saw how small we were compared to them, as small as one of their thighs." ...

Thus, the United States has been bombing North Vietnam presumably to halt the Viet Cong attacks, without having produced tenable evidence that Hanoi actually controls the movement in the South.

They would also try to tempt US troops away from a camp by drawing them into a fight, so that it remained safe or could be evacuated. The Viet Cong tried to avoid fighting the US troops directly.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - At the Viet My Supermarket in New Orleans East ... Carpenter have been booked on one count of second-degree murder. A third suspect, Adrian Harris, was booked on a count ...

Vietnam is a classic proxy war, with the Viet Cong substituting for the Soviet bloc, and the U.S. providing aid and air support (bombing) to a puppet regime. Vietnam's internal conflict begins in ...

The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965.