Bridging history and memory in the classroom. I am now old enough to be teaching the children of my first students. Among that early group were many who had arrived in the United States as “boat ...

Larry La discusses his memoir 'Square Moon: One Man's Journey From War-Torn Vietnam to D.C.'s Hottest Kitchens' with the WTOP Book Report ... “I could see the helicopter shooting out rockets ...

General Westmoreland wanted nuclear weapons sent to South Vietnam in the event of defeat, though President Johnson swiftly ...

Fortunately, the “howitzer Huey” never materialized. It was likely an unworkable concept, given the helicopter’s limitations.

The MiG pilots had completely misjudged the Skyraiders, possibly assuming their speed advantage would ensure early ...

The militaries blame the order to cease firing for real on what is discreetly called ‘a release of live munitions’ that ...

We saw pretty much the same thing in Vietnam, pitting brother ... in her insightful book called Nuclear War, had only recently described a helicopter crash involving the US president who was ...

which was among the first major engagements of the Vietnam War. The battle was immortalized in the book and movie "We Were Soldiers," and saw the first major use of contemporary air assault ...

In the second half of the 20th century, the generation of Republican lawmakers who entered politics after serving in World War II, Korea and Vietnam helped define a ... buoyed by a steady stream of ...

Ahead of its time in performance and design, the Lockheed AH-56 seemed like a promising attack helicopter for the United ...

The fall of the South Vietnam capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — soon to be 50 years ago — effectively spelled the end of ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the ...