Outline of the Vietnam War

Lists related to the Vietnam War.

Major military operations of the Vietnam War with launching dates

• Operation Chopper - January 12, 1962
• Operation Ranch Hand - January 1962
• Operation Starlite - August 17, 1965
• Operation Crimp - January 8 1966
• Operation Birmingham - April 1966
• Operation Hastings - Late May 1966
• Operation Prairie - August 1966
• Operation Deckhouse Five - January 6, 1967
• Operation Cedar Falls - January 8, 1967
• Operation Junction City - February 21, 1967
• Operation Scotland - See Battle of Khe Sanh
• Operation Pegasus - August 8, 1968
• Operation Menu - February 1969
• Operation Ivory Coast - November 21, 1970
• Operation Lam Son 719 - February 8, 1971
• Operation Frequent Wind - April, 1975

Major battles of the Vietnam War

• Battle of Ap Bac - January 2, 1963
• Battle of Ia Drang - November 14 - November 16, 1965
• Battle of Long Tan - August 18, 1966
• Khe Sanh Hill Fights- April 24-May 9, 1967
• Battle of Dak To- November 3-November 22, 1967
• Siege of Khe Sanh - January 21 - April 8, 1968
• Tet Offensive - January 30 - February 24, 1968
• First Battle of Saigon - March 7, 1968 - ?
• Tet 1969 - February 1969
• Battle of Hamburger Hill - May 10 - May 20, 1969
• Eastertide Offensive - March 30 - October 22, 1972
• Battle of Xuan Loc - April 9 - April 20, 1975

Major bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War

• Operation Pierce Arrow
• Operation Flaming Dart
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• Operation Linebacker
• Operation Linebacker II

Major figures of the Vietnam War

South Vietnam	United States
Bao Dai Duong Van Minh Ngo Dinh Diem Ngo Dinh Nhu Nguyen Cao Ky Nguyen Khanh Nguyen Van Thieu	Creighton W. Abrams Dean Acheson Spiro Agnew Ellsworth Bunker McGeorge Bundy William Bundy William Calley Clark Clifford A. Peter Dewey John Foster Dulles Dwight D. Eisenhower Daniel Ellsberg Barry Goldwater Alexander Haig Seymour Hersh Hubert H. Humphrey Lyndon Johnson John F. Kennedy Henry Kissinger Melvin Laird Mike Mansfield Graham Martin Robert McNamara Richard Nixon Pete Peterson Dean Rusk Maxwell D. Taylor William Westmoreland Revel Loughlin Micheal Prendergast
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Le Duan Tran Van Tra Le Duc Tho Pham Van Dong General Giap
Cambodia
Lon Nol Pol Pot Norodom Sihanouk

Common military medals of the Vietnam War

South Vietnam

• National Order of Vietnam
• Vietnam Military Merit Medal
• Vietnam Distinguished Service Order
• Vietnam Meritorious Service Medal
• Vietnam Special Service Medal
• Vietnam Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Air Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Navy Gallantry Cross
• Vietnam Armed Forces Honor Medal
• Vietnam Civil Actions Medal
• Vietnam Staff Service Medal
• Vietnam Technical Service Medal
• Vietnam Wound Medal
• Vietnam Campaign Medal
• Vietnam Presidential Unit Citation
• Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation
• Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation

North Vietnam

• Ho Chi Minh Order
• Defeat American Aggression Badge
• Vietnam Liberation Order

United States

• Vietnam Service Medal

Anti-war publications in the US forces

• "Fatigue Press" at Fort Hood, Texas
• "FTA" (Fuck The Army) at Fort Knox, Kentucky
• "FTA With Pride" in Heidelberg
• "Last Harass" at Fort Gordon, Georgia
• "Pawn's Pawn" at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
• "Ultimate Weapon" at Fort Dix, New Jersey
• "Attitude Check" at Camp Pendleton, California
• "Green Machine" at Fort Greely, Alaska
• "Napalm" at Fort Campbell, Tennessee
• "Arctic Arsenal" at Fort Greely, Alaska
• "Black Voice" at Fort McClellan, Alabama
• "Fragging Action" at Fort Dix
• "Fort Polk Puke" at Fort Polk, Louisiana
• "Custard's Last Stand" at Fort Riley, Kansas
• "Whack!" from the Women's Army Corps School
• "Where Are We?" at Fort Huaracha, Arizona
• "Voice of the Lumpen" (affiliated with teh Black Panther Party) in Frankfurt
• "Can You Bear McNair?" at McNair Barracks, Berlin
• "Seasick" at Subic Bay
• "The Man Can't Win If You Grin" in Okinawa
• "Korea Free Press"
• "Semper Fi" in Japan
• "Stars and Bars" in England
• "Separated From Life" in England
• "Duck Power" in Sand Diego
• "Harass the Brass" at Canute Air Force Base, Illinois
• "All Hands Abandon Ship", Newport, Rhode Island
• "Now Hear This", Long Beach
• "Potemkin" on the USS Forestall
• "Star Spangled Bummer" at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
• "Fat Albert's Death Ship" in Charlestown
• "Pig Boat Blues", USS Agerholm
• "Special Weapons", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
• "I Will Fear No Evil", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
• "Blows Against the Empire", Kirtland AFB, New Mexico

Further reading

History texts

• Phillip Davidson. 1988. Vietnam at War: The History 1946-1975
• Daniel Ellsberg. 2002. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking Press.
• Frances Fitzgerald. 1972. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little Brown and Company.
• David Halberstam. 1969. The Best and the Brightest. New York. Ballantine Books.
• Patrick J. Hearden. 1991. The Tragedy of Vietnam New York: Harper Collins.
• George C. Herring. 1979. "America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975". Boston: McGraw-Hill.
• Stanley Karnow. 1983. Vietnam, A History. New York: Viking Press, ISBN 0140265473
• Robert J. McMahon. 2003. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War. New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN 061819312X
• Robert McNamara. 1995. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. (written with Brian VanDeMark) New York: Vintage Books.
• Robert Mann. 2001. A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam. New York: Basic Books.
• Jonathan Neale. 2001. The American War: Vietnam 1960-1975. London: Bookmarks Publications Limited.
• James S. Olson (editor). 1988. Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, Inc.
• Robert Schulzinger. 1997. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Neil Sheehan. 1988. A Bright Shining Lie. New York: Vintage.
• Lewis Sorley. 1999. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam New York: Harcourt.
• Gabriel Kolko. 1994. Anatomy of a war: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience London: Phoenix Press.

Non-fiction

• Fall, Bernard. 1967. "Hell in a Very Small Place: the Siege of Dien Bien Phu".
• Just, Ward. 1968. "To What End: Report from Vietnam."
• Oberdorfer, Don. 1971. "Tet: the Story of a Battle and its Historic Aftermath".
• Emerson, Gloria. 1976. "Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War".
• Caputo, Philip. 1977. "A Rumor of War".
• Santoli, Al. 1981. "Everything We Had: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by 33 American Soldiers Who Fought It".
• Mason, Robert C. 1983. "Chickenhawk".
• Moore, LTG Harold G., and Galloway, Joseph L. 1992. "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young".
• O'Brien, Tim. 1973. "If I Die in a Combat Zone".
• Puller, Lewis B. Jr. 1991. "Fortunate Son".
• Woolf, Tobias. 1994. "In Pharaoh's Army".
• Langguth, A. J. 2000. "Our Vietnam: the War 1954-1975".
• Laurence, John. 2002. "The Cat from Hue: a Vietnam War Story".
• Dileo, David L. 1991. "George Ball, Vietnam, and the Rethinking of Containment".
• Davis, Peter. 1974. Hearts and Minds. Documentary film. Academy Award for Best Documentary. Available on DVD.
• Herrington, Stuart A. 2004. "Stalking The Vietcong".
• Dockery, Martin J. 2004. "Lost in Translation".
• Plaster, John L. 1998. "Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam".
• Kelly, Daniel E. 1998. "Seawolves: First Choice".

Fiction

• Ford, Daniel. 1967. "Incident at Muc Wa" (filmed 1976 as "Go Tell the Spartans")
• Greene, Graham. 1955. "The Quiet American".
• Herr, Michael. 1977. "Dispatches".
• O'Brien, Tim. 1978. "Going After Cacciato".
• Webb, James. 1978. "Fields of Fire".
• Heinemann, Larry. 1986. "Paco's Story".
• O'Brien, Tim. 1990. "The Things They Carried".
• Meyers, Walter Dean. 1988. "Fallen Angels".
• King, Stephen. 1988. "Hearts in Atlantis".
• Ninh, Bao. 1995. "The Sorrow of War'.