A lot of young men my age were happy to serve in Vietnam. Many were the sons of men who had saved the world from fascism in World War II. The U.S. military had not won in Korea in the war against ...

The name "Browning" is synonymous with American firearms, and for good reason. John Browning designed some of the most legendary weapons of all time, including the Auto-5 shotgun, the M1919 ...

Hugh Thompson, a pilot of the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Americal Division, flew an observational helicopter supporting Task Force Barker on March 16, 1968.

Hugh Thompson Jnr, a former US military helicopter pilot who helped stop one of the most infamous massacres of the Vietnam War has died, aged 62. Mr Thompson and his crew came upon US troops killing ...

The massacre became one of the pivotal events as opposition to the war was growing in the United States.</p><p>Hersh called Thompson "one of the good guys."</p><p>"You can't imagine what courage it ...

A display at the My Lai Memorial Site in My Lai village, Vietnam. (Adam Jones/ Flickr) On March 16, 1968, a U.S. Army platoon was sent on a search and destroy mission to a South Vietnamese village ...

Regarding The Post’s July 30 front-page obituary “Army officer became face of My Lai Massacre”: I was drafted into the U.S. Army in July 1969, after the completion of my graduate school ...

William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the US soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military ...

William Calley, the only U.S. soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, died in April this year at age 80. Just a heads-up - this next story contains descriptions of ...

William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious ...