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Between 1961 and 1971, the US military sprayed over 72 million litres of herbicides in Vietnam, including more than 45 million litres of Agent Orange, contaminated with toxic dioxin. Today, over three ...
DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to ...
Bulky 'C-123 providers' spray chemical defoliant over Vietnam in 1968. (Right) Nguyen Ba Quy Phuoc, 14, attends a physio ...
Decades after the fall of Saigon, millions are still dealing with the legacy of the Vietnam War.The chemical ghost of Agent ...
When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast ...
Waterbury native Tony Monteiro, at Anthony's Barber & Style Shop for 55 years, spent 14 months as a medic for the U.S. Army ...
The Vietnam War, which came to an end 50 years ago this week, has been followed by a similarly lopsided war of historical ...
More than 58,000 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but the number of those dying from its impacts continues to rise ...
Five decades after the fall of Saigon, America’s legacy and relationship with Vietnam are now mired in uncertainty.
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, decades of progress in addressing its legacies is coming undone.
Greenwich resident Kip Burgweger served in the Vietnam War from 1965-66 and said his life might have been saved by chance.
Across Vietnam, U.S. forces sprayed sprayed 72 million liters (19 million gallons) of defoliants during the war to strip the enemy's cover. More than half was Agent Orange, a blend of herbicides.