ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. All U.S. forces were gone by March 1973. The economy in South Vietnam collapsed without U.S. financial support after the oil crisis and global recession ...
In the 20 years after the Korean War, Vietnam's jungle terrain posed new and unique challenges to military aviation. In 1962, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara tasked Lt. Gen. Hamilton Howze ...
After World War Two, it was returned to French control ... policy This policy involved sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam. It often meant soldiers were easy targets for ...
30, 1974: The Rumble in the Jungle. In Zaire, at the Stade des Martyrs stadium, Muhammad Ali, then 32, fought George Foreman, 25. Most thought Ali didn't stand a chance. It was understandable. Ali was ...
The crew also used a jungle penetrator to hoist patients from ... 101st Airborne Division infantryman in the Vietnam War, often helped load wounded on to medevacs after firefights.