Echoes of the Vietnam War

For the tens of thousands of families who received tragic news during the Vietnam War, their lives were profoundly changed at that moment and their reactions to the news covered the full range of huma...

26 Apr 20231h 10min

To celebrate the fiftieth episode of our podcast, we reconnect with a few of the people who have shared their stories with us over the past two years. They talk about what they’ve been up to since, an...

12 Apr 20231h 2min

Throughout the month of April 1975, in a mass evacuation known as Operation Babylift, around 2,000 infants and children were airlifted from orphanages in South Vietnam to the United States. In this ep...

30 Mar 202347min

Of the 58,281 names on the wall, two-thirds of them died in 1967, ‘68, and ‘69. Robin Bartlett landed in I Corps right smack in the middle of that period. His training sergeant at Camp Evans said to h...

15 Mar 202352min

For soldiers joining the Vietnam War after the initial buildup, the first stop in Vietnam was usually at a replacement battalion — commonly referred to as a “repo depot” — where they would wait to be ...

2 Mar 202338min

American Red Cross volunteers known as “Donut Dollies” were often called in to visit a unit after it had been experienced intense fighting and had suffered heavy casualties. Why would any twenty-somet...

16 Feb 202338min

December of 1967 was a pivotal time to arrive in Vietnam. A month later, the Tet Offensive would alter the course of the war, public sentiment about its prosecution, and the direction of a presidency....

1 Feb 202340min

*The pilot awarded the Navy Cross was Capt. Ronald E. “Mugs” McKeown.  Commander Michael William Doyle was the pilot of the downed F-4 Phantom.    CDR Michael W Doyle is honored on Panel 1W, Line 69 o...

19 Jan 202343min