Old folks add context, color and infinite human factors, describing their times as tunnel rats, Army nurses, and both reluctant and gung-ho perpetrators of war crimes (the most amoral of those ...

This is because many accounts of war crimes against communist prisoners ... if they’re dead, they’re Viet Cong.» One concept in particular, military necessity, was repeatedly cited in this ...

a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control. April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the ...

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 ...

Source: Vanity Fair Children also witnessed horrific violence in Vietnam. In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas ...

Lê Công Cơ was a Viet Cong fighter. “He had a great record ... to tell the men's story through a documentary, "Beyond a War." ...