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Robert C. Burke
Robert Charles Burke (November 7, 1949–May 17, 1968) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in May 1968.
Burke was born on November 7, 1949, in Monticello, Illinois. While still a student at...
William Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68), during the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the...
James A. Graham
Captain James Albert Graham (August 25, 1940-June 2, 1967) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the highest U.S. military honor — the Medal of Honor for his heroism and sacrifice of life in June 1967, during the Vietnam War.
James...
Earle Wheeler
Earle Gilmore "Bus" Wheeler, (January 13, 1908 – December 18, 1975) was a United States Army General who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1962–1964) and then as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1964–1970), holding the latter...
Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968–72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543,000 to...
Terrence C. Graves
Second Lieutenant Terrence Collinson Graves (6 July 1945–16 February 1968) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for "outstanding courage, superb leadership and indomitable fighting spirit" in Vietnam on 16 February...
Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
Alfredo Cantu "Freddy" Gonzalez (May 23, 1946–February 4, 1968) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for service in the Battle of Huế during the Vietnam War.
Gonzalez was born on May 23, 1946, in...
Russ Shalders
Vice Admiral Russell Edward Shalders, AO, CSC, RAN (born 8 September 1951) is a retired admiral of the Royal Australian Navy. He served as Vice Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 2002 to 2005, and as Chief of Navy from 2005 to 2008.
Shalders...
Jedh Colby Barker
Jedh Colby Barker (June 20, 1945 – September 21, 1967) was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War in September 1967.
Jedh Barker was born on June 20, 1945, in...
Leslie Allen Bellrichard
Leslie Allen Bellrichard (December 4, 1941 – May 20, 1967) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Bellrichard joined the Army from...
Steven L. Bennett
Steven Logan Bennett (April 22, 1946 – June 29, 1972) of Palestine, Texas was a United States Air Force pilot who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War on August 8, 1974.
Prior to entering the U.S. Air Force,...
John Roland Burke
Corporal John Roland Burke (February 6, 1944—June 6, 1967) was a sniper in the United States Marine Corps. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the Vietnam War for which he was killed in action at Khe Sanh.
For...
John Sanderson
Lieutenant General John Murray Sanderson AC (born 4 November 1940) is a former Governor of Western Australia and a former Chief of the Australian Army.
Born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 4 November 1940, John Sanderson completed his secondary...
David John Shackleton
Vice Admiral David John Shackleton AO (born 2 March 1948) was a Vice Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy, and was Chief of Navy from 1999 to 2002.
David Shackleton joined the Navy from Adelaide, South Australia in 1966 under Supplementary List ...
Victor Smith
Admiral Sir Victor Alfred Trumper Smith AC, KBE, CB, DSC, RAN (9 May 1913 – 10 July 1998) was a senior officer within the Royal Australian Navy, eventually becoming the first Australian to achieve the rank of admiral and serving as Chairman, Chiefs...
Nguyen Van Toan
Nguyễn Văn Toàn (October 6, 1932 -) was born in Huế and served as a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
Toan graduated from the Dalat Military Academy in 1952 and became an armor officer.
Lieutenant Colonel Toan was relieved of...
Peter John Badcoe
Peter John Badcoe VC (11 January 1934 – 7 April 1967) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Badcoe was born as Peter John...
John Geoghegan
John Lance "Jack" Geoghegan, (November 10, 1941 - November 15, 1965) was an infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Army, who was killed during the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.
Born in Pelham, New York, Geoghegan was the only son of John J....
John G. Gertsch
John Gary Gertsch (September 29, 1944 or 1945 – July 19, 1969) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
John G. Gertsch went to high...
Bruce Alan Grandstaff
Bruce Alan Grandstaff (June 2, 1934 – May 18, 1967) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Grandstaff joined the Army from his birth...
Joseph Xavier Grant
Joseph Xavier Grant (March 28, 1940 – November 13, 1966) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Grant joined the Army from Boston,...
Peter M. Guenette
Peter Matthew Guenette (January 4, 1948 – May 18, 1968) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Guenette joined the Army from Albany,...
Nguyen Van Troi
Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (c. 1940 – 15 October 1964) was a Việt Cộng (National Liberation Front) bomber. He gained notoriety after being captured by the South Vietnamese while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and...
Nguyễn Hữu An
Nguyễn Hữu An (October 1, 1926 – April 9, 1995) was a general in the Vietnamese People's Army.
An was born in the Truong Yen Commune of the Hoa Lư District, Ninh Binh, Vietnam. He joined the People's Army of Vietnam in September 1945.
In the First...
Nguyen Van Coc
Nguyễn Văn Cốc (born 1943) is a former North Vietnamese MiG-21 PFL fighter ace of the Vietnamese People's Air Force's (also known as the North Vietnamese Air Force) 921st Fighter Regiment.
Coc was born in the Viet Yen district of the province of Bac...
Nguyen Hong Nhi
Nguyễn Hồng Nhị was a MiG-21 fighter ace of the Vietnam People's Air Force's 921st Fighter Regiment. Eight kills have been attributed to him with three confirmed by the United States Air Force. However, it was common practice for American pilots to...
Phoumi Nosavan
Phoumi Nosavan (Lao: ຜກຸມກິ ນອວກະກະສນ; Chinese: 富米诺萨万/ 富米諾薩萬; pinyin: fùmĭ nuòSàwàn) (1920-1985) was a Lao military and political figure of the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War). Nosavan was of Chinese descent.
Backed by the CIA and the Programs...
Brian L. Buker
Brian Leroy Buker (November 3, 1949 – April 5, 1970) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Buker was born on November 3, 1949, in...
Dan Bullock
Private First Class Dan Bullock (December 21, 1953 - June 7, 1969) was the youngest American serviceman killed in action during the Vietnam War.
Dan Bullock was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. lived in North Carolina until he was about 13, when...
Rayene Stewart Simpson
Rayene Stewart "Ray" Simpson VC, DCM (16 February 1926 – 18 October 1978) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth...
Alan Stretton
Major General Alan Bishop Stretton AO CBE (born on 30 September 1922) is a former senior Australian Army officer.
Stretton began his military career serving with the 2/9th Battalion after graduating from the Royal Military College, Duntroon during...
Ngo Quang Truong
Lieutenant General Ngô Quang Trưởng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade,...
Ngo The Linh
Colonel Ngô Thế Linh (born 6 December 1928, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, French Indochina – died 25 February 1999) was a Colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), South Vietnam. He was the first Commander of Coastal Security Service (CSS)...
Nguyen Chi Thanh
General Nguyễn Chí Thanh (1914 - July 7, 1967) was a North Vietnamese officer who was born in Thua Thien Province in Central Vietnam to a poor peasant family. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Vịnh. He joined the Indochinese Communist Party in the...
Nguyen Huu Co
Lieutenant General Nguyễn Hữu Có (born c. 1925) served as an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and was prominent in several coups and juntas in the 1960s.
In 1963, Có came to prominence for his role in the November coup that toppled and...
Nguyen Lac Hoa
Father Augustine Nguyen Lac Hoa (born ca. 1908 - died ca. 1989), a refugee Chinese Catholic priest in South Vietnam, led a militia called the Sea Swallows that carved out an anticommunist enclave in the Viet Cong's Ca Mau Peninsula stronghold. The ...
Nguyen Ngoc Le
General Nguyễn Ngọc Lễ was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was also the head of the National Police in the 1950s. Lễ strongly advocated the assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother and advisor Ngô Đình...
Nguyen Thanh Phuong
Nguyễn Thành Phương was a general under the Cao Dai sect and was in command of 25,000 soldiers.
Nguyen Van Hinh
Nguyễn Văn Hinh (1915 – 2004), was appointed the Vietnamese National Army Chief of Staff by Emperor Bảo Đại. On November 8, 1954, after the First Indochina War he left South Vietnam in exile for France.
Nguyen Van Lem
Nguyễn Văn Lém (referred to as Captain Bảy Lốp) (died 1 February 1968 in Saigon) was a member of the Viet Cong who was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The execution was captured on film by photojournalist Eddie Adams, and the...
Nguyen Van Minh
Nguyễn Văn Minh was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War. Minh entered military service during the First Indochina War in 1950 as an airborne officer serving in the French colonial forces. In November 1960,...
Nguyen Xuan Ngai
Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ngai was born in South Vietnam. He is a Vietnamese American and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the People's Action Party of Vietnam.
He had served in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) as a young Medical Officer at Nguyen Van...
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ( listen; 8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) served as the chief of the Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965-67. Then, until his retirement from...
Nguyen Hop Doan
Nguyễn Hợp Đòan (1928–2002) was to be the last Mayor of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam and Province Chief of Gia Dinh Province, before the fall of Saigon that led to the reunification of Vietnam under the Communist party in 1975.
Born in Hai...
Iceal Hambleton
Lieutenant Colonel Iceal E. "Gene" Hambleton (November 16, 1918 – September 19, 2004) was an officer of the United States Air Force, famous for being the subject of a long and costly search and rescue mission during the Vietnam War. During the...
Ron Kovic
Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an anti-war activist, veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie...
