U.S. Army fire bases in Vietnam were important support units, but could be vulnerable to coordinated nighttime assaults. (U.S. Army) This time, the attack was directed at another area of the base.

it was the site of a brutal battle at the United States Army’s Firebase Bird – and until recently, it was the location of a mass grave containing the remains of 60 people. By 1966, Vietnam’s ...

Decades after the Vietnam War, US soldiers are returning to the country ... to the Kim Son Valley and the site of the 1966 battle at Firebase Bird. From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

As deafening explosions and rapid gunfire pierced the darkness surrounding the largest U.S. Army base in the former South ...