Key Point: Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon. It was forty-five years ago ...

Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam War might have ended in the spring of 1972 with North Vietnamese tanks in the streets of Saigon.

The “Christmas bombing” of 1972 — and why that misremembered Vietnam War moment matters In the American narrative, one last bombing attack on North Vietnam brought peace.

Four army men who rescued seven people from a burning transport plane in 1972 during the Vietnam War will receive Silver Star medals on Tuesday for their heroic action.

Vietnam experiences of Navy vets from Florida helped Keith Saliba tell his "Crucible" story of America at war in the pivotal year of 1972.

THE IRAQ WAR has reawakened memories of the Vietnam War, ... without undermining the political structure of South Vietnam. Between 1969 and 1972, it withdrew 515,000 American troops, ...

The Vietnam War made the draft, which had been a distinct feature of American life since 1940, politically unsustainable. ... While their process in 1972 was traditional, ...

Retired Air Force Col. Robert Certain was shot down over Hanoi on Dec. 18, 1972. He spent 101 days as a prisoner of war.

That was Friday, April 7, 1972. A day that Wallingford recalled as clearly as if it were yesterday, as he recounted it to CNN at a recent reunion for surviving Vietnam War POWs in California.

On Aug. 4, 1972, U.S. military pilots flying south of Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam saw something unexpected. More than two dozen sea mines suddenly—and without apparent explanation—exploding in ...

Some of them are included in a new book by Jacksonville University Professor Keith Saliba, "Crucible 1972: The War for Peace in Vietnam." It's Saliba's second nonfiction book on Vietnam.