Vietnam War

Nick was once a prisoner of war in Vietnam who managed to survive the very last minute. His saving grace? His beard.

How long do you think you could last to hold off enemy forces if the fate of the entire world was in your hands? For Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins, he’d gladly do it for as long as he could.

When the M79 grenade launcher was developed in the 1960s and saw use during the Vietnam War, its users either instantly fell in love with it… or despised it with their being— there’s no in-between.

Peter Lemon had a slightly different story because he did his duties and more while high on marijuana.

Was it right to assume that all those more than 3,000 kids were orphans and not some children who got lost and with parents waiting to find them?

The US discovered that the cause of the mines’ explosions was not enemy ships. As it turned out, the culprit was located some 93 million miles away: the sun.

One of the biggest factors not known to many was the vast and wide-ranging list of rules that the soldiers had to follow, all while trying to fight for their lives, known as the rules of engagement.

Would you take Sears products as a form of payment for your spying works like these agents did during Vietnam War?

For the radiomen on the Vietnam War, the odds were even more against them that their life expectancy in the field was five seconds.

Did the US military hesitate to throw away $10 million worth of vehicles to make room for more refugees?

“False Flag” was a phrase that was originally coined to describe the practice of pirate ships that fly the colors of other nations to trick merchant ships into thinking that they were friendly vessels.

Tunnel rats performed underground search and destroy missions during the Vietnam War. A word of warning: The job was not for the faint of heart.