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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.
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).
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 ...
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 Museum of Aviation is hosting an event called Operation Homecoming on April 21 from 1–3:30 p.m. in Warner Robins that will feature former prisoners of war and their homecoming stories.
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.
Jul. 25—MINERAL WELLS — A labor of love one mile east of Mineral Wells is seeking public help to add a second phase to the National Vietnam War Museum. "Our museum will never accept money from ...