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Vietnam War Still Leaves Traces of Agent Orange in Vietnam

Ian Harvey
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a turbulent time in the arena of politic and international relations, and it appears to have left a bitter taste with…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 3

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Part 1: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-1.html Part 2: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-2.html Equally helpful in trying to unravel the Tonkin mystery at the time was John Galloway’s 1970 work The Gulf of Tonkin…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 2

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JOHN MORELLO, PH.D. SENIOR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY DEVRY UNIVERSITY ADDISON, IL Part 1: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/articles/deep-water-dark-secrets-reassessing-historiography-tonkin-gulf-incident-part-1.html When Maddox first appeared in the Tonkin Gulf on August 1, 1964,…

DEEP WATER, DARK SECRETS: REASSESSING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TONKIN GULF INCIDENT – Part 1

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JOHN MORELLO, PH.D. SENIOR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY DEVRY UNIVERSITY ADDISON, IL It wasn’t long after the events of August 2-4, 1964 that questions arose about…

President Awards Medal of Honor to Those Overlooked Due to Racial Prejudice

On March 19, 2014, United States President, Barak Obama, awarded 24 soldiers the Medal of Honor. The soldiers spanned three wars and were initially overlooked…

US Vietnam War veteran with cancer receives claims for exposure to Agent Orange in Okinawa

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Loaded: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter sits by unidentified barrels at Naha Military Port in the late ’60s. | COURTESY OF MICHAEL JONES   Another…

A Look Into the Vietnam Tunnels

Huyh Van Chia was only 17 years old when he began to fight as a guerilla soldier in the Vietnam War. When he turned 21,…

The Australian Film, The Rocket, Banned in Laos

The Rocket, an Australian film, is banned in Laos—the country in which the film takes place. This sheds an odd light on the story that…

Department “Played God” with Vietnam War Photo Dragging Williams, Blomley in Bitter Contest

For Vietnam War veteran Kerin Williams, he just wanted to get back the identity and historical past so rightly his to be returned. However, the…

President Barack Obama to Hand Out 24 Medals of Honor

Washington – President Barack Obama is going to hand out 24 Medal of Honor to 24 veterans who served in WWII, Korean war and Vietnam…

Father, Son Separated During War Reunite

Ian Harvey
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Gary Bui, an Albuquerque resident, had only two photographs of his father for the last 40 years. In one of the photographs were his father…

Idaho war hero returns to Laos to find remains of downed pilot 45 years since

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Leland Sorensen of Aberdeen looked back at his exploits in Southeast Asia when he was still a member of the elite U.S. Air Force para-rescue…