said the government had allowed relatives to restore and relocate graves of South Vietnamese soldiers at cemeteries such as Binh An — formerly the Bien Hoa National Military Cemetery — which ...

Other needs were met inside South Vietnam. Main force Vietcong units were uniformed, full-time soldiers, and were used to launch large scale offensives over a wide area. Regional forces were also ...

Instead, a lot of tanks were used in urban environments. South Vietnamese soldiers proved essential in the battles for Hue and Saigon. But they could not root out the enemy without American help.

Editor's note: The headline and story were updated to reflect that Robert Howard is the only soldier nominated ... mission at Kon Tum in south-central Vietnam when his unit learned that the ...