The Vietnam Stories - Your Stories

The following stories and pictures were submitted to WQED from individuals in the Pittsburgh region.
We encourage you to share your stories and pictures as well.

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I was a helicopter pilot…

My brother Tom was killed…

Was this not told?

Intercepted the enemy’s radio communications…

First Visit to The Wall

The Memories Return: Vietnam!

What’s in a Name?

We lost because of “dirty politics”

We were mortared every couple of nights

Within 15 minutes… nine of my squad members were killed

I wrote a course on Vietnam called “To Teach a Nation”

May 1970, I was severely wounded in a road ambush

Most of “my story” happened on Vung Chua Mountain….

July 29th there was a disastrous fire on the Forrestal

Our ship flew the last combat air operations against North Vietnam

Pictures from the war

As our plane landed at Danang AFB in darkness, we started to take rocket fire….

The American people lost the war, not us…

…Super 8 videos I took while with the 45th Surgical Hospital in Tay Ninh…

I was a radioman with Lima Company Third Battalion Third Marines….