When standing at the center of Vietnam’s Hien Luong pedestrian bridge, the former divide between the country’s north and south is painfully obvious. That’s because this 584-foot-long expanse across ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). This year marks half a century since the end of the Vietnam War, or the American War, as it’s known in Vietnam. The conflict dragged on ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...