Torpedoes away!
Three North Vietnamese P-4 torpedo boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox, an American destroyer patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, on August 2, 1964. This photograph,...
Transcript of report of heroism
First Lieutenant Jack E. Deichman’s report of Captain Manuel “Jay” S. Vargas’s heroism during the Vietnam War supported awarding him the Medal of Honor. This...
Treating the wounds
During the North Vietnamese Army’s surprise 1968 Tet Offensive, a fierce battle raged in the city of Hue. Pitting North Vietnamese Army regulars and Vietcong...
Unfaltering devotion to duty
First Lieutenant Jack E. Deichman recalled the “outstanding leadership, calm presence of mind, unfaltering devotion to duty, and disregard for his own safety,”...
Unprovoked attack
On August 3, 1964, one day after receiving word of a possible attack on the U.S.S. Maddox, the State Department in Washington, DC, sent these instructions to...
Valor second to none
Lieutenant Colonel Richard P. Schumann describes in detail the rescue of three Combat Controllers by the pilots of "a slow, un-armed, highly vulnerable transport...
Vietnam, 1975
This telegram—the last message from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam—was sent on April 29, 1975. President Gerald R. Ford had ordered the evacuation of...