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10,000 women from the US served in Vietnam, few recognize their role
When it comes to watching the Vietnam conflict play out on television shows and movies, we rarely see how women served the ...
50 years later, Vietnam's battlefields draw retrospective veterans and other tourists
Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and ...
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50 years later, Vietnam’s battlefields draw retrospective veterans and other tourists
the former Phu Bai Combat Base on the city’s outskirts, and Da Nang, which was a major base for both American and South Vietnamese forces. “Everywhere you went, you know, it was occupied ...
Why tourists are flocking to Vietnam’s battlefields, 50 years on from the war
Why tourists are flocking to Vietnam’s battlefields, 50 years on from the war - Places where countless lives were lost have ...
50 years later, Vietnam’s battlefields draw war veterans and other tourists
The locations of many of Vietnam's biggest and most famous battles attract crowds of sightseers and veterans from both sides ...
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Change of Command
Olds was the commander of the U.S. Air Force 8th Tactical Fighter Wing ... 28 from the 366th wing at Da Nang. We were to fly at the same altitude and speed as heavily loaded Thuds, and we were ...
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USAID cuts jeopardize Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam
Agent Orange cleanup funding resumed, but project's future is uncertain A U.S. project to clean up the former Da Nang Air Base was successfully completed in 2018, giving rise to the Bien Hoa ...
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How Vietnam’s war zones have become tourist spots 50 years later
Is this the future of air travel? Hazelton’s tour just shy of his 80th birthday took him back for the first time to places he served as a young draftee, including Hue, the former Phu Bai Combat Base ...
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Fresh Air
Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Hosted by Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, the show ...