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13 unusual facts about Vietnam war


483rd

483d Composite Wing, tactical airlift and composite wing assigned to Pacific Air Forces during the Vietnam War

Arnold Palmer Invitational

1973: Vietnam War veteran Buddy Allin shoots a tournament record 23 under par to breeze to an eight shot victory over Charles Coody.

Battle of Prek Klok

The Battle of Prek Klok may refer to one of two battles during Operation Junction City in the Vietnam War

CNN NewsStand

The NewsStand series' debut episode, broadcast on 1997-06-07, was a CNN & Time presentation, "Valley of Death", a highly controversial report that accused the United States military of using sarin gas in Operation Tailwind during the Vietnam War.

Cooper–Church Amendment

The Cooper–Church Amendment was introduced in the United States Senate during the Vietnam War.

Hugh McCulloch

Revenue Cutter McCulloch served under George Dewey in the Battle of Manila during the Spanish-American War, and Coast Guard Cutter McCulloch served in World War II and the Vietnam War.

James Wieghart

He reported on the U.S. Department of Defense during the waning years of the Vietnam War (writing from Vietnam for several weeks in 1971) and covered the White House during the Watergate scandal.

Non-binding resolution

On 1971-06-22, the United States Senate passed a non-binding resolution in support of withdrawing troops from Vietnam.

Operation Abilene

Operation Abilene (1966) - a joint US-Australian military operation in 1966 during the Vietnam War.

Operation Blowdown

There was also a view to use such techniques in the later Myanmar conflict and Vietnam War, which were simmering at the time.

Smoky Joe's Cafe

Smoky Joe's Cafe, a novel by Bryce Courtenay, deals with the psychological and physical scars on "Thommo" left by the Vietnam War and Agent Orange.

UD4L Cheyenne

Concept artists were asked to include subliminal acknowledgments to the Vietnam War, due to the influence the War had on the film's story.

United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

The lack of judicial review persisted, however, until the increase in veterans claims following the Vietnam War.


1968 Pittsburgh Steelers season

Bleier would play ten games for the Steelers before being drafted again—this time by the military to fight in Vietnam.

1st Australian Logistic Support Group

The 1st Australian Logistic Support Group (1 ALSG) was a ground support unit of the Australian Army during the Vietnam War located at Vũng Tàu.

511th Tactical Fighter Squadron

As the Vietnam War intensified, deployed flights to both Thailand and South Vietnam throughout the 1960s, providing air defense of Bangkok and Saigon as well as other areas from enemy aircraft.

A Lưới District

Many areas and mountains in the A Luoi region became historical in the mid-late 1960s during the Vietnam War, such the Battle of A Shau, the 5th Special Forces Camp that was overrun in 1966, as well as the 4,878-foot Dong Re Lao Mountain best known as the "Signal Hill" that was seized by 1st Cavalry Division LRRP / Rangers in 1968 during Operation Delaware.

Air Gallantry Cross

The Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross was a military decoration of South Vietnam which was issued during the years of the Vietnam War.

Allan Hogan

During this time, he reported from the Vietnam War and conducted interviews with such infamous characters as Idi Amin.

Bob Lee Swagger

He is the protagonist of a series of books that relate his life after and during the Vietnam War—Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt, The 47th Samurai, Night of Thunder, I, Sniper, Dead Zero, and, most recently, The Third Bullet.

Brian Lindsay

He attended the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1955 to 1958, then entered the military, serving with the Pacific Islander Regiment from 1959 to 1963 and with the regular army in Papua New Guinea, Malaya, Borneo, and in the Vietnam War.

Byron P. Howlett

The Battle of Đắk Tô was a series of major engagements of the Vietnam War that took place between November 3–22, 1967, in Kontum Province, in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).

C. D. B. Bryan

It describes an Iowa farm family, Gene and Peg Mullen, and their reaction and change of heart after their son's accidental death by friendly fire in the Vietnam War.

Canungra, Queensland

In Redgum's #1 single "I Was Only Nineteen", Canungra is referred to as one of the bases used for training during the Vietnam war.

Clarendon, New South Wales

During the Vietnam War Logistic support and medical evacuations were supplied by the Hercules from RAAF Richmond.

Clash of Wings

Too young for World War II, his military service spanned the Korean War, service with the strategic bomber forces of the deep cold war, and the Vietnam War.

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (also known in Australia as Vietnam: Hell or Glory) is a 1982 film directed by Peter Werner and written by Paul G. Hensler, set in the Vietnam War.

Energy–maneuverability theory

He teamed with mathematician Thomas Christie at Eglin Air Force Base to use the base's high-speed computer to compare the performance envelopes of U.S. and Soviet aircraft from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Evolution of the Dutch Empire

Dutch New Guinea was retained separately until 1962, when it was transferred to Indonesia under pressure from the United States amid the escalation of the Vietnam War.

Exit strategy

The term was used technically in internal Pentagon critiques of the Vietnam War (cf. President Richard Nixon's promise of Peace With Honor), but remained obscure to the general public until the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia when the U.S. military involvement in that U.N. peacekeeping operation cost the lives of U.S. troops without a clear objective.

Foster Campbell

Roemer, however, was not supporting McCrery, but instead the Democrat Stanley R. Tiner, the former editor of the since defunct Shreveport Journal, a native of Webster Parish, and United States Marine veteran of the Vietnam War.

Frank Reynolds

A few years after Reynolds' death, musician Paul Hardcastle recorded a section of an ABC documentary about the Vietnam War, that included narration by Reynolds, and later used it as part of his 1985 U.S. Top 40 and U.K. #1 (5 weeks) hit, 19.

Fred Dailey

Fred Dailey served with the 101st Airborne Division in the Vietnam War.

Gerard John Schaefer

He would later admit to killing animals in his youth and cross dressing, although at other times he claimed the latter was solely to avoid the draft into the Vietnam War (which he did).

Gyrojet

About 1,000 of the "Rocketeer" model pistols were produced; a few saw service in the Vietnam War, and were featured in a James Bond book and movie You Only Live Twice, as well as one of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels.

Henning Mankell

In his youth Mankell was a left-wing political activist and a strong opponent of the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, and Portugal's colonial war in Mozambique.

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Mankell participated in the Protests of 1968 in Sweden, protesting against, among other things, the Vietnam War, the Portuguese Colonial War, and the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

Jack D. Maltester

In 1971 he sponsored a resolution at the annual USCM meeting in Philadelphia, entitled "Withdrawal from Vietnam and Reordering of National Priorities", which called upon President of the United States Richard Nixon "to do all within his power to bring about a complete withdrawal of all American forces from Vietnam by December 31, 1971."

Joe Bodolai

Born and raised in the United States, Bodolai was opposed to the Vietnam War and moved to Canada in order to avoid being drafted.

Keith Uncapher

With the Vietnam war winding down it was also an ideal time for ISI to help rebuild the gap between the Department of Defense and academia.

Long Hill Township, New Jersey

Jack H. Jacobs (born 1945), Medal of Honor recipient in 1969 for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War.

Luu Huynh

In 1997, a segment he directed accompanying a song by Trinh Cong Son generated much controversy among overseas Vietnamese because it allegedly depicted South Vietnam during the Vietnam War in a negative light.

Margaret Holmes

Margaret Joan Holmes (née Read), AM (24 January 1909 – 10 September 2009) was an Australian peace activist, particularly during the Vietnam War and as part of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

Max Soliven

Spending more than twelve years as a foreign correspondent, Soliven traveled to many of the notable global hotspots during the 1960s, such as the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive therein; and the Gestapu Coup in Indonesia in 1965, in which half a million people were massacred.

Nixon Doctrine

The Nixon Doctrine implied the intentions of Richard Nixon shifting the direction on international policies in Asia, especially aiming for "Vietnamization of the Vietnam War."

People of the Whale

People of the Whale is a 2008 novel by Linda Hogan about a Native American man named Thomas Just who is forced to come to terms with his experiences in Vietnam during the war.

Robert C. Smith

He served in the United States Navy Reserve from 1962 to 1965, and was on active duty from 1965 to 1967, including a year in Vietnam.

Roger Murtaugh

He was a lieutenant of the 173rd Airborne Brigade in the U.S. Army, and served in the Vietnam War.

South Beach, Staten Island

This roadway, which was the only portion of the "Shore Front Drive" proposed by Robert Moses to be actually built, was later renamed Father Capodanno Boulevard, after a Roman Catholic chaplain who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, and runs from near the Verrazano Bridge to Midland Beach.

Stryker

The vehicle is named for two American servicemen who posthumously received the Medal of Honor: Private First Class Stuart S. Stryker, who died in World War II and Specialist Four Robert F. Stryker, who died in the Vietnam War.

The Color of Truth

Subtitled McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms, it is a biography focusing on the Bundys' role in American foreign policy, especially in the progression of the Vietnam War.

The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam

The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam is a book by Lucien Bodard published in 1967 about the First Indochina War, which it asserts to be a prelude to the Vietnam War.

Tomas Vu

A hill gridded with pure orange cadmium pigment was floated in the gallery space, recalling ideas of toxicity and Agent Orange, the deadly chemical defoliant used by the United States during the Vietnam War.

Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story

Staff Sergeant Thorburn was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross by New York State Senator John J. Flanagan for his accomplishments in the Vietnam War.

Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent

Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent is a 59-minute documentary film about a protest against the Vietnam War divided into three sections, mirroring the movements of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, to which the film is set.

USS Maddox

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron (Gulf of Tonkin Incident), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Resolution).

Vigilante Force

Vigilante Force is a 1976 American action film concerning a Vietnam War veteran (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies, who are hired by his brother (Jan-Michael Vincent) and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field workers.

William R. Higgins

As a lieutenant, he participated in combat operations during 1968 with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in the Republic of Vietnam as a rifle platoon commander and rifle company executive officer, and was aide-de-camp to the Assistant 3rd Marine Division Commander.

Would You Buy A Used War From This Man?

The "This Man" in the title was Richard Nixon, who was the President of the United States from 1969–1974, and the "War" in the title was the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975.