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Around 50 local veterans and survivors of Vietnam and other wars gathered Friday, March 29 on the anniversary at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial in Amarillo to honor those veterans who never came ...
The Vietnam Center and Archive, part of Texas Tech University, is the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of information on the Vietnam War. [ 1] On August 17, 2007, the Texas Tech Vietnam Center became the first U.S. institution to sign a formalized exchange agreement with the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [ A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
The North Viet Cong were about to start the largest offensive of the Vietnam War. They attacked over 100 cities on January 30, 1968 in what was called the Tet Offensive.
The highly decorated colonel began flying the Phantom 2 in 1964. Two years later on his 176th mission, he was shot down over enemy territory and became a prisoner of war — for 2,284 days.
Vietnam Memorial. The monument in 2024. 30°15′58.4″N 97°43′33.3″W. / 30.266222°N 97.725917°W / 30.266222; -97.725917. Location. Austin, Texas, U.S. The Vietnam Memorial is installed at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas. Dedicated on April 19, 2008, the grey and black granite monument has a bronze sculpture on top and ...
Now, a veterans group is planning to build a 6 1/2-foot-high black granite monument dedicated to the 23 Harlingen soldiers killed during the war from 1961 to 1975. As part of the project, city ...