Returning to the U.S., Leonard was serving as a drill sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, nearing retirement from the ...

Retreating soldiers mingled with civilians ... General Dung ordered a full-scale assault on Saigon. PAVN forces breached city defenses, and tanks of the 203rd Tank Brigade pushed toward the ...

or PAVN; 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 ...

The South Vietnamese communists were well practiced in the latter, but when soldiers of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) began making their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in growing numbers ...