That sound sends chills down the spine of Navy medics. It means a Marine has been wounded – or worse. Corpsmen spring into action with little regard for their own safety to help fallen comrades, often ...

They say apicture is worth a thousand words. Photographs capture moments in history and allow us to relive memories.During ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Atlantic Monthly Press "Hue 1968" by Mark Bowden The Vietnam War wasn’t all that unpopular in the United States until the long and agonizing stories and ...

First published in 1969, this searing eyewitness account of the fighting in the Vietnamese city of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive is republished here in a new translation with a long introduction ...

With backing from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, paperwork to upgrade the Navy Cross awarded to then-Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Canley to the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Hue City in ...

In continuation of its 20th year, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago recently opened its newest exhibit, "Tet and the Battle of Hue." The innovative exhibition features 10 tactile, 3-D ...

In 1968, the capture of the Vietnamese city of Hue by communist forces — and the bloody battle to take it back — not only changed the course of the Vietnam War, it also changed how Americans back home ...

Like his epochal best-seller “Black Hawk Down,” Mark Bowden’s “Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam” is the story of a battle. Like “Black Hawk Down,” it is smart, well-reported ...

In the early hours of Jan. 31, 1968, America's war in Vietnam took a stunning turn. Some who were there would mistake the initial bursts of gunfire and explosions as part of the ongoing celebrations ...

The Marine Corps staff sergeant who mounted an assault to take a crucial tower in the bloody 1968 Battle of Hue in Vietnam died Oct. 1 in Wasilla, Alaska. He was 75. Robert L. Thoms — nicknamed “Cajun ...

For Mark Bowden, author of Hué 1968, the pivotal battle of the War in Vietnam did not follow the script most Americans were used to scanning in their newspapers or visualizing on the evening news. The ...