Battles & Weapons

Selected Vietnam Battle Sites (United States Military Academy)

The Battle of Ap Bac (1963)

The Battle of Kontum (Spring 1972)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident & Resolution

• National Security Agency: Gulf of Tonkin
• The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later (National Security Archives)
• Cronkite: Gulf of Tonkin's Phantom Attack (National Public Radio)
• The Secret Side of the Tonkin Gulf Incident (Naval Institute Magazine)
• Tonkin Gulf Crisis, August 1964 (Naval Historical Center)

Battles of the Vietnam War (The History Net)

Hamburger Hill (May 1969)

• Hamburger Hill Homepage (for the film, but with historical information and maps)

Tet Offensive (1968)

• The Tet Offensive (Vets with a Mission)
• John Olson's Photographs of the Battle of Hue--1968
  • RealVideo Interview with John Olson (from The Digital Journalist)
  • An Interview with John Olson (from The Digital Journalist)
• Wandering Souls: Tet '68 Remembered (Web site for the film)

Khe Sanh--1968

• Khe Sanh (Al Zehner)
• Khe Sanh Veterans Home Page
• The Siege at Khe Sanh (from PBS, "Battlefield Vietnam")

The Battle of Dienbienphu --1954

Ia Drang -- November 1965 ("One of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War")

• The Battle of Ia Drang
• A Reporter's Journal from Hell: Joe Galloway (The Digital Journalist)
• See also the web sites for the movie, "We Were Soldiers...)

Cu Chi: The Underground War (BBC)

War in the Villages and Tunnels (Prof. Ernest Bolt, University of Richmond)

Australian Tunnel Rats

Tunnel Rats in Vietnam & Elsewhere (bellum.nu)

Weapons of the Vietnam WarNational Museum of the United States: The Southeast Asia Wars

National Museum of the United States: Modern Flight Aircraft (including SE Asia)

Naval Historical Center: Vietnam Service 1962-75

Mobile Riverine Force (Brown Water Warfare)

HELICOPTER WARFARE

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

US Marines Combat Helicopter Association

Vietnam Helicopter Images and Artifacts

Chopper Links

From History.net

• Air America: Played a Crucial Part of the Emergency Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon
• Eagle Dustoff: Medevac Choppers to the Rescue
• Brave Jolly Green
• Casualty Evacuation Helicopters: Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' in the Vietnam War
• Air America: Played a Crucial Part of the Emergency Helicopter Evacuation of Saigon
• U.S. Army Captain Thomas Pienta: Firsthand Account of a Vietnam War Helicopter Pilot
• Interview with Richard Jellerson: A Huey Pilot's Insights on the Helicopter War in Vietnam