crippled the NVA, which lost 20 percent of its forces in the South and suffered 33,000 men killed in action, all for no gain. By the end of 1969, over 70 percent of South Vietnam’s population ...

By 1966, Vietnam’s civil war had been raging ... slogging through the jungles of Binh Dinh in search of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and guerrilla forces. But when the truce expired in ...

“The NVA, which stands for the North Vietnamese ... to it-ness’ to make it through the training and to do my job in Vietnam,” he said. “And so I felt like I was ready for the challenge ...

"Graham was the best possible commander, he gave his all in the face of certain death," Corporal Brent MacKinnon said of the Marine captain. D Company of 7th Marines began to arrive as reinforcements.

In April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army began to close in on Saigon, and South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. Last Days in Vietnam premieres April 28 on PBS American Experience.