In observance of the coming 50th anniversary of its conclusion, here are nine key moments that defined the Vietnam War.

For 50th anniversary of Vietnam War ending, I traveled in Vietnam. The war's painful schisms were personal for me: I'm the son of Robert McNamara.

When Jack Danner hit the beach in a landing craft on his first day as an American soldier in Vietnam in 1965, he expected to see bullets flying. “As we pulled into Vietnam everybody was given ...

Ralph White’s book, ‘Getting Out of Saigon,’ chronicling the struggle to escape the Communist Vietnamese takeover, makes for ...

Maribel Sikes and her mom walked into a commissary on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. As they pushed their cart through ...

Vietnamese soldiers use detection equipment and sniffer dogs to search through debris in Myanmar. When dogs detect a likely location, handlers mark it with flags for further investigation. Based on ...

On April 14, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks burst through the gates of the South Vietnamese government’s presidential palace, a short distance away at the American Embassy, as people scrambled to escape ...

Alex Garland’s latest film, which he co-directed with the former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, dramatizes a little-known 2006 ...

Colonel Roger Hugh Charles Donlon was the first American soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Vietnam — and the first Green Beret ever awarded the nation’s highest military honor.

Documentary Festival. Mliczewska's sophomore feature follows Sang, one of countless children left behind by American soldiers after the Vietnam War. Stigmatized and abandoned, he spends a lifetime ...

Chicago remembered Thursday night the ultimate sacrifice made by four American soldiers. "This tragic incident ... in Chicago gathered downtown at Vietnam Veterans Memorial in honor of the four ...

On Saturday, those who fought in that conflict gathered at the USS Hornet in Alameda for a ceremony marking National Vietnam War Veterans Day and they reflected on what lessons may have been learned ...