ANZAC is the name given to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in the East Mediterranean early on the morning of 25 April 1915 during the First World War (1914-1918).

A site dedicated to the explication of thecourts-martial of Lt. Calley and Ernest Medina resulting from their roles in the massacre at My Lai village. Records from the court-martial, maps, images, Peers Commission Reoprt, essays, and other materials pertinent to the My Lai cases are included. Part of the Famous Trials Project of the University of Missouri- K. C.

7 mai 1954 : La Guerre d'Indochine entre dans sa phase terminale... Dien Bien Phu : la plus furieuse, la plus longue bataille du Corps expeditionnaire francais en Extreme-Orient. 169 jours d'affrontement dont 57 jours d'enfer.

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My Lai Massacre On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the village of My Lai. This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it, said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. When news of the atrocities surfaced, it sent shockwaves through the US political establishment, the ...

Return to Wars and Conflicts page Return to Naval Historical Center home page. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Surprised at Tet: U.S. Naval Forces in Vietnam, 1968 by Glenn E. Helm Reference Librarian, Navy Department Library, Naval Historical Center. His research interests include intelligence, surprise ...

Four-star General Vo Nguyen Giap led Vietnam's armies from their inception, in the 1940s, up to the moment of their triumphant entrance into Saigon in 1975. Possessing one of the finest military minds of this century, his strategy for vanquishing superior opponents was not to simply outmaneuver them in the field but to undermine their resolve by inflicting demoralizing political defeats with his ...

Tet offensive: a turning point in the Vietnam war The American intervention in Vietnam began in 1963 withe direct aim of stopping the South falling into 'communist' hands. In August of that year, Lyndon Johnson, who had taken over the American presidency in the wake of the assasination of John F. Kennedy, ordered the first air strikes on the North. Six months later the 'Rolling Thunder' air ...

Arc Lights and Super Gaggles: Examining the Air Battle for Khe Sanh Garrett Moritz The thing that broke their backs was basically the fire of the B-52 s --General William C. Westmoreland The final irony...is that the air weapon my prove militarily ineffective in the end. --Neil Sheehan For Americans, there was perhaps nothing more exhilarating in CNN s coverage of the Persian Gulf War than ...

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Covert attacks of North Vietnam by U.S.-owned Norwegian Nasty fast patrol boats help push the United States into the Vietnam War.

One of 'Hamburger Hill' web pages. Part of the 'History in Film' web site. Includes plot, outlines, homework and screen photos.