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The Vietnam War was a military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959[1] to 30 April 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other member nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).[2][3]

Military activity[]

Operations[]

Listed by starting date:

Battles[]

Air campaigns[]

Military medals[]

South Vietnam[]

North Vietnam[]

United States[]

Anti-war publications in the US forces[]

  • "Fatigue Press" at Fort Hood,
  • "Last Harass" at Fort Gordon, Georgia
  • "Pawn's Pawn" at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
  • "Ultimate Weapon" at Fort Dix, New Jersey
  • "Attitude Check" at Camp Pendleton, California
  • "Green Machine" at Fort Greely, Alaska
  • "Napalm" at Fort Campbell, Tennessee
  • "Arctic Arsenal" at Fort Greely, Alaska
  • "Black Voice" at Fort McClellan, Alabama
  • "Fragging Action" at Fort Dix
  • "Fort Polk Puke" at Fort Polk, Louisiana
  • "Custer's Last Stand" at Fort Riley, Kansas
  • "Whack!" from the Women's Army Corps School
  • "Where Are We?" at Fort Huachuca, Arizona
  • "Voice of the Lumpen" (affiliated with the Black Panther Party) in Frankfurt
  • "Can You Bear McNair?" at McNair Barracks, Berlin
  • "Seasick" at Subic Bay
  • "The Man Can't Win If You Grin" in Okinawa
  • "Korea Free Press"
  • "Semper Fi" in Japan
  • "Stars and Bars" in England
  • "Separated From Life" in England
  • "Duck Power" in San Diego
  • "Harass the Brass" at Canute Air Force Base, Illinois
  • "All Hands Abandon Ship", Newport, Rhode Island
  • "Now Hear This", Long Beach
  • "Potemkin" on the USS Forestall
  • "Star Spangled Bummer" at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
  • "Fat Albert's Death Ship" in Charlestown
  • "Pig Boat Blues", USS Agerholm
  • "Special Weapons", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
  • "I Will Fear No Evil", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
  • "Blows Against the Empire", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico

source: "The American War" – see references below

People of the Vietnam War[]

South Vietnamese people[]

American people[]

South Korean people[]

North Vietnamese people[]

Cambodian people[]

Media related to the Vietnam War[]

Non-fiction[]

  • David H. Hackworth. 1989 About Face
  • A.J. Langguth. 2000. Our Vietnam: the War 1954–1975.
  • Mann, Robert. 2002. Grand Delusion, A: America's Descent Into Vietnam.
  • Windrow, Martin. 2005. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam.
  • Bernard Fall. 1967. Hell in a Very Small Place: the Siege of Dien Bien Phu.
  • Harvey Pekar. 2003. American Splendor: Unsung Hero
  • Prados, John. 2000. The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War.
  • Prados, John. 1999. Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh.
  • Shultz, Robert H. Jr. 2000. The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam.
  • Plaster, John L. 1998. SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam.
  • Murphy, Edward F. 1995. Dak To: America's Sky Soldiers in South Vietnam's Central Highlands.
  • Nolan, Keith W. 1996. The Battle for Saigon: Tet 1968.
  • Nolan, Keith W. 1996. Sappers in the Wire: The Life and Death of Firebase Mary Ann.
  • Nolan, Keith W. 1992. Operation Buffalo: USMC Fight for the DMZ.
  • Nolan, Keith W. 2003. Ripcord : Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970.
  • Robert S. McNamara. 1996. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
  • Larry Berman. 2002. No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam.
  • Bergerud, Eric M. 1994. Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam.
  • Bernard Edelman. 2002. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.
  • Darrel D. Whitcomb. 1999. The Rescue of Bat 21.
  • Oberdorfer, Don. 1971. Tet: the Story of a Battle and its Historic Aftermath.
  • LTG Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. 1992. We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young.
  • Duiker, William J. 2002. Ho Chi Minh: A Life.
  • John Laurence. 2002. The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story.
  • Emerson, Gloria. 1976. Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War.
  • Philip Caputo. 1977. A Rumor of War.
  • Al Santoli. 1981. Everything We Had: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by 33 American Soldiers Who Fought It.
  • Robert C. Mason. 1983. Chickenhawk.
  • Michael Herr. 1977. Dispatches.
  • Joseph T. Ward. 1991. Dear Mom: a Sniper's Vietnam.
  • Hemphill, Robert. 1998. Platoon: Bravo Company.
  • Noam Chomsky. 1967. The Responsibility of Intellectuals.
  • Moore, Robin. 1965 The Green Berets (ISBN 0-312-98492-8)
  • Tim O'Brien. 1973. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home.
  • Frank W. Snepp III. 1977. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam

Fiction[]

  • Robert Olen Butler. 1992. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  • Nelson Demille. 2002. Up Country.
  • Garth Ennis. 2003. The Punisher: Born
  • Daniel Ford. 1967. Incident at Muc Wa (filmed 1976 as Go Tell the Spartans).
  • Graham Greene. 1955. The Quiet American (filmed 1958, 2002).
  • Larry Heinemann. 1986. Paco's Story.
  • Gustav Hasford. 1979. The Short-Timers (filmed 1987 as Full Metal Jacket).
  • Duong Thu Huong. 2005. No Man's Land.
  • Phillip Jennings. 2005. Nam-a-Rama.
  • Denis Johnson. 2007. Tree of Smoke.
  • Karl Marlantes. 2010. Matterhorn.
  • William Pelfrey. 1984. The Big V.
  • Stephen King. 1999. Hearts in Atlantis. (filmed 2001 as "Hearts in Atlantis")
  • Walter Dean Myers. 1995. Fallen Angels
  • Bao Ninh. 1995. The Sorrow of War.
  • Tim O'Brien. 1978. Going After Cacciato.
  • Tim O'Brien. 1990. The Things They Carried.
  • Edward B. Robinson. 2006. The Godhead[2]
  • James H. Webb. 1978. Fields of Fire.
  • John M. Del Vecchio. 1982. The 13th Valley.
  • Wayne Care. 1989. Vietnam Spook Show.

Film[]

  • 1968 Tunnel Rats
  • 84C MoPic
  • A Rumor of War
  • A Bright Shining Lie
  • Across the Universe
  • Air America
  • The Anderson Platoon (documentary)
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Bat*21
  • Birdy
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • The Boys in Company "C"
  • Braddock: Missing in Action III
  • Bullet in the Head
  • Casualties of War
  • The Challenge
  • Combat Shock
  • Coming Home
  • Dead Presidents
  • The Deer Hunter
  • Dien Bien Phu (French)
  • Enemy Image
  • The Exterminator
  • Flight of the Intruder
  • The Fog of War (documentary)
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Expendables
  • Eye of the Eagle 3
  • First Blood
  • Forrest Gump
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Going Back
  • Go Tell the Spartans
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • The Green Berets
  • Hair
  • Hamburger Hill
  • The Hanoi Hilton
  • Hearts and Minds (documentary)
  • Heaven & Earth
  • Heroes
  • How Sleep the Brave
  • In the Shadow of the Blade (documentary)
  • In the Year of the Pig (documentary)
  • The Iron Triangle
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Jacknife
  • Journey from the Fall
  • The Killing Fields
  • L'ultimo cacciatore
  • Message From Nam
  • The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam (documentary)
  • Missing in Action
  • Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
  • Motorpsycho
  • My Husband is Missing
  • No Substitute for Victory (documentary)
  • The Odd Angry Shot (Australian)
  • Off Limits
  • Operation Dumbo Drop
  • Operation Warzone
  • Path to War
  • Phantom Soldiers
  • Platoon
  • Platoon Leader
  • Purple Hearts
  • The Quiet American (1958)
  • The Quiet American (2002)
  • Rambo
  • Rescue Dawn
  • In the Shadow of the Blade
  • The Siege of Firebase Gloria
  • The 317th Platoon (French)
  • Tigerland
  • To the Shores of Hell
  • Tribes
  • Tropic Thunder
  • The Ugly American
  • Uncommon Valor
  • The Veteran
  • The War at Home (documentary)
  • Watchmen
  • We Were Soldiers
  • White Badge (South Korean)
  • A Yank in Viet-Nam

Although there is no official list grouping, the major Vietnam War movies have been noted for their main focus on a particular branch of the United States Military in Vietnam. Full Metal Jacket is about the U.S. Marines in Vietnam, Platoon is about the U.S. Army in Vietnam, We Were Soldiers is about the Air Cavalry in Vietnam, Apocalypse Now is, to an extent, about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam, Hamburger Hill is about the Airborne in Vietnam and The Green Berets is about the Green Berets in Vietnam.

Allied armies appear in Dien Bien Phu, The Odd Angry Shot, and White Badge.

As yet, there is no Vietnamese film to provide that country's perspective.

Other[]

  • The musical Miss Saigon

References[]

  1. ↑ . Diem instituted a policy of death penalty against any communist activity in 1956. The Vietcong began an assassination campaign in early 1957. An article by French scholar Bernard Fall published in July 1958 concluded that a new war had begun. The first large unit military action was on 26 September 1959, when the Vietcong ambushed two ARVN companies.[1]
  2. ↑ The landmark series Vietnam: A Television History, first broadcast in 1983, is a special presentation of the award-winning PBS history series, American Experience.
  3. ↑ "Vietnam War". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Vietnam-War. Retrieved 5 March 2008. "Meanwhile, the United States, its military demoralized and its civilian electorate deeply divided, began a process of coming to terms with defeat in its longest and most controversial war" 
  4. ↑ Hwang Sang Cheol. "A retired colonel, Kim Ki Tae, tells of systematic killings of Vietnamese civilians by Korea soldiers during the Vietnam War.". Hankyoreh. http://www.hani.co.kr/h21/vietnam/vietnam_war1.html. Retrieved 17 July 2011. 
  5. ↑ Armstrong, Charles (2001). Critical asian studies, Volume 33, Issue 4 :America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam. Routledge. p. 529. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "The Cold Warrior". Newsweek. April 10, 2000. http://www.newsweek.com/2000/04/09/the-cold-warrior.html. Retrieved 17 July 2011. 

History texts[]

  • Vaughn Davis Bornet. [1984]. "The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. Chapters 3, 4, 11, 14.
  • Phillip Davidson. 1988. Vietnam at War: The History 1946–1975
  • Daniel Ellsberg. 2002. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking Press.
  • Bob Fink. 1981 Vietnam, A View from the Walls. Detroit: Greenwich Publishing. ISBN 0-912424-08-7.
  • Frances FitzGerald. 1972. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little Brown and Company.
  • Felix Greene. 1966. VIETNAM! VIETNAM! IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT. Palo Alto, California: Fulton Publishing Company, LCCN: 66-28359.
  • David Halberstam. 1969. The Best and the Brightest. New York. Ballantine Books.
  • Patrick J. Hearden. 1991. The Tragedy of Vietnam New York: Harper Collins.
  • George C. Herring. 1979. "America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975". Boston: McGraw-Hill.
  • Stanley Karnow. 1983. Vietnam, A History. New York: Viking Press, ISBN 0-14-026547-3
  • Michael P. Kelley. 2002 Where We Were In Vietnam, 1945–1975. Hellgate Press. ISBN 1-55571-625-3
  • Gabriel Kolko. 1994. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience London: Phoenix Press.
  • Guenter Lewy. 1978. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Michael Maclear. 1981. Vietnam, The Ten Thousand Day War. London: Mandarin, ISBN 0-7493-0016-7
  • Robert J. McMahon. 2003. Major Problems in the History of the s relating Vietnam War. New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN 0-618-19312-X
  • Robert McNamara. 1995. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. (written with Brian VanDeMark) New York: Vintage Books.
  • Robert Mann. 2001. A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. New York: Basic Books.
  • Wilbur H. Morrison. 2001. The Elephant and the Tiger. Hellgate Press. ISBN 1-55571-612-1
  • Mark Moyar. 2006. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86911-9.
  • Jonathan Neale. 2001. The American War: Vietnam 1960–1975. London: Bookmarks Publications Limited, ISBN 1-898876-67-3
  • James S. Olson (editor). 1988. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, Inc.
  • Gareth Porter, Perils Of Dominance: Imbalance Of Power And The Road To War In Vietnam, University of California Press (June, 2005), hardcover, 403 pages, ISBN 0-520-23948-2
  • Robert Schulzinger. 1997. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941–1975. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Neil Sheehan. 1988. A Bright Shining Lie. New York: Vintage.
  • Lewis Sorley. 1999. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam New York: Harcourt.
  • Harry G. Summers. 1982. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-563-7, ISBN 978-0-89141-563-3
  • Shelby Stanton. 1987. Vietnam: Order of Battle
  • Shelby Stanton. 1988. The Rise and Fall of an American Army
  • Louis A. Wiesner. 1988. Victims and Survivors Displaced Persons and Other War Victims in Viet-Nam. New York: Greenwood Press.

See also[]

  • Vietnamese boat people
  • Reeducation camp

External links[]

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