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Franklin Douglas "Doug" Miller (January 27, 1945 – June 30, 2000) was a United States Army Special Forces staff sergeant during the Vietnam War who was awarded the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions above and beyond the call of duty on January 5, 1970.
Franklin D. Miller: Army: Staff Sergeant: Kon Tum province: January 5, 1970: He single-handedly held off an enemy assault, arranged for a helicopter extraction of his unit, and again fought off the enemy alone until relief arrived, although wounded himself. Gary L. Miller † Army: First Lieutenant: Bình Dương province: February 16, 1969
Robert Yott is compiling stories from Southern Tier Vietnam War veterans for a book timed with next year's 50th anniversary of the end of the war. Calling all Vietnam veterans: Bath historian ...
The American withdrawal from South Vietnam began to directly affect SOG in 1971. By early 1972 U.S. military personnel were forbidden from conducting operations in either Laos or Cambodia, its teams of mercenary SCUs continued those operations (in the newly renamed Phu Dung / Prairie Fire and Thot Not / Salem House areas).
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam is a 2012 book by historian Fredrik Logevall, then a professor at Cornell University.The book won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History, the inaugural American Library in Paris Book Award, and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award and was a runner-up for the Cundill Prize. [1]
The first American to visit Vietnam was Captain Jeremiah Briggs of The Fame, a commercial ship, set sail from Salem, Massachusetts and arrived at Huế on May 23, 1803. [17]: 3–5 The second was US Navy Lieutenant John White, commanding the USS Franklin (1795) on a commercial trip to Vietnam.
More than 50 years ago, Franklin Armstrong first appeared in the Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip. Now we learn his backstory in the Apple TV+ special "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin."