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Early on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers descended on South Vietnam on a search-and-destroy mission that within a few hours left hundreds of infants, children and other civilians dead. A historian contends that the massacre would have likely never happened if not for the ambitious officer who planned the mission and longed for a battalion command.

Don Luce, activist who exposed Vietnam War horrors, dies at 88

Don Luce evolved from a bystander in the Vietnam War to an influential activist who helped boost the antiwar movement back home in the U.S. in 1970 by showing members of a congressional team the horrific conditions inside a prison run by U.S.-ally South Vietnam.



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D-Day at 75: Remembering the day that turned the tide

Seventy-five years ago tens of thousands of American, British and Canadian troops stormed the German-held beaches of Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Thousands died, and thousands more were wounded.

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