Vietnam War

Vietnam War Veteran’s Remains Returned to Family After 47 Years

By David Stout

The Best of LIFE: 37 Years in Pictures

By Ben Cosgrove

#TIMEvets: Share Your Stories and Photos of Inspiring Veterans

By TIME Photo Department

America in Vietnam, 1963: Deeper Into War

By Ben Cosgrove
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War to Peace

An American 
veteran returns to Vietnam to help make it safer for 
his former enemy

By David Stout / Quang Tri

Ali in Exile: Rare Photos of the Once and Future Champ in 1968

LIFE.com pays tribute to the once and future heavyweight champion of the world with a series of rare photographs made in New York in 1968, after he'd been stripped of his title.

By Liz Ronk

In Limbo Between War and Peace: A Vietnam Veteran Comes Home

In the spring of 1971, LIFE magazine published a profile of a 21-year-old Vietnam vet facing the troubles endured by countless veterans through the years: the doubts; the troubled sleep; the anger; the longing for normalcy.

By Ben Cosgrove

Khe Sanh and Operation Pegasus: Scenes From Vietnam, 1968

Photos from Operation Pegasus, a joint U.S. and South Vietnamese push by 30,000 troops to lift the siege of Khe Sanh in 1968.

By Ben Cosgrove

Stop Pretending Nothing Happens in August

The month of beach vacations is also when World War I broke out, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Andrés Martinez

America's Appalling Veterans Affairs Scandal: The 1970 Edition

In May 1970, LIFE magazine published a devastating cover story on the frightful conditions faced by wounded veterans who were "fated to pass into the bleak backwaters of our Veterans Administration hospitals."

By Ben Cosgrove

The U.S. Is Finally Making a Friend of Vietnam

Washington's warm rapprochement with Hanoi is a reflection of the American desire to contain an increasingly bold and hawkish China. Some experts say relations have improved to the point where a lifting of the arms embargo on Vietnam is possible

By David Stout

Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll, June 1969

A look back at a landmark, and intensely controversial, 1969 LIFE magazine feature

By Ben Cosgrove

The Last Time China Got Into a Fight With Vietnam, It Was a Disaster

Current Sino-Vietnamese tensions are merely the latest in a series of bitter conflicts between the two countries. The last time Hanoi and Beijing pushed each other to the brink, tens of thousands perished

By David Stout

Sudden Death in Vietnam: 'One Ride With Yankee Papa 13'

A searing portrait of young men fighting for their lives in Vietnam -- photographed in 1965, at the very moment that America was ramping up its involvement in Southeast Asia.

By Ben Cosgrove

The War Within: Portraits of Vietnam Veterans Fighting Heroin Addiction

Remembering the intensely personal war that afflicted so many who returned from Vietnam, as well as the struggles and demons that plague veterans -- of all wars -- today.

By Liz Ronk

10 Iconic LIFE Covers

These covers provide as strong and as varied a sampling as one is likely to find of 10 pictures that capture the very best of LIFE through the years.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE Covers: The War in Vietnam

On the 50th anniversary of the military coup that deposed South Vietnamese President Diem, we look back at LIFE magazine's Vietnam War-related covers from the '60s and early '70s.

By Ben Cosgrove

American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai

Five decades after American troops killed men, women and children in a village in Vietnam, LIFE.com bears witness to the horror by republishing the story of My Lai as it ran in LIFE 20 months later.

By Ben Cosgrove

Malcolm Browne: The Story Behind The Burning Monk

On the 50th anniversary of Quang Duc's self-immolation in 1963, LightBox presents an interview with Malcolm Browne, the Associated Press photographer who captured the now-iconic image.

By Patrick Witty

1967: Pictures From a Pivotal Year

That the 1960s still hold remarkable sway over the American psyche is hardly a matter of debate. How people respond to the decade’s grip on the national imagination, on the other hand — well, that’s...

By Ben Cosgrove
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