Battles & Weapons

Selected Vietnam Battle Maps (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

Weapons of the Vietnam War

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

Naval Historical Center: Vietnam Service 1962-75

HELICOPTER WARFARE

Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association

US Marines Combat Helicopter Association

Vietnam Helicopter Images and Artifacts

Chopper Links

From History.net

• 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