Aviation played a huge role in how the Vietnam War rolled out—after all, there’s a reason the conflict is also known as “The ...

a jellied gas used in warfare in Vietnam. Napalm became the symbol of the war. Mark Greenside explains “Napalm was this hideous, jellied gas burning at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It didn't just ...

But Dow soon became the military's sole supplier of napalm, which meant that when its use in the Vietnam War became controversial, Dow was the only corporate target. For such a simple thing to ...

And it is to Vietnam that Bui has turned again for his forthcoming, potentially shocking, next project, based on the ...

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 ...

Fifty years after the end of the war, a group of U.S. veterans spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam by bus. They once came as soldiers. Now, they are searching for forgiveness.

Of all the burn cases—by accident or by non-napalm weaponry—that came to his attention, only 5% required plastic surgery. As for war casualties, Rusk discovered that most were caused by the ...

They used jets to dump napalm, a chemical that burnt skin ... of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were easy ...

during the Vietnam War, such as the use of helicopters and napalm in "Apocalypse Now" (1979), starring Marlon Brando; and the use of tunnels and firepower in "We Were Soldiers" (2002), starring ...

Combat photographers shot everything from napalm drops to this deceptively ... For U.S. Air Force combat cameramen who served in Vietnam, memories of the war never fade; they are frozen in the ...

the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. The siege lasted 77 days and was one of the longest and most gruesome battles in the war.

It's an extraordinarily inspiring life no one could have predicted for the little Vietnamese girl famously caught up in the tragedy of the Vietnam war ... wipe the sticky napalm off her arm ...