Vietnam War Articles

• How to Prep a Landing Zone - One of the primary tasks of the artillery in combat is the firing of preparations for a heliborne assault.
• The Fog of War: The Vietnamese View of the Ia Drang Battle - North Vietnamese perspective on the Ia Drang valley battle at LZ X-Ray
• No Time for Reflection: Command and Control at Ia Drang - Colonel Hal Moore seems to have gone into battle more with implicit assumptions than with an explicit vision of what he should and could make happen at Ia Drang.
• The Gulf of Tonkin - Account of the attack on the USS Maddox that led to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution giving the President authority to wage war in SE Asia.
• Paris Peace Accords - Background documents and full text of the Accords that effectively ended US involvement in Vietnam.
• Armour in Closed Terrain - USMC Command Staff College abstract from 1985 that argues for the re-employment of armour in close terrain based on lessons learned in Vietnam.
• Death on the Highway - The destruction of Groupement Mobile 100.
• Vietnam: Tankers War? - Article by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Walker (Retired).
• Ambush Detection - Article by Brigadier-General Robert H. Williams (USMC, Retired) and Marcel Vigneras.
• Replacements - In-country processing at the 90th Replacement Battalion, Long Binh, RVN
• Dreaming of a White Christmas - The last days and hours of the US presence in Vietnam.
• Communist Hero raised in US ranks - Story of Nguyen Thanh Trung, the VNAF pilot who bombed the Presidential Palace.
• The Last Marines out of Saigon - Personal account of the evacuation of the US Embassy by the commander of the USMC Security Guards.