We asked you which movies made about the Vietnam War got the most right and which got the most wrong. And boy, did you respond. Here is what you told us.

Vietnam-era war correspondents wore uniforms, ate field rations and shared many of the deprivations and dangers of ordinary fighting men. Five decades later, their ranks are thinning but those who remain are still telling stories about “the last good war” for combat journalists.

1967 was a time of change and hard questions, a coming of age for a generation with bipolar views about the war.

Stars and Stripes asked journalist, historian and author Marc Leepson to take some of the most popular Hollywood Vietnam War movies and rate each one for realism. Which nail the details, and which raise enormous red flags?

From massive moments of traditional warfare like Operation Junction City, to battles in defense of exposed and vulnerable Marine bases along the Demilitarized Zone like Con Thien, to stealthy long-range reconnaissance patrols – American forces across the length and breadth of South Vietnam sought to bring overwhelming firepower to bear on their North Vietnamese and Viet Cong foes.

As far as authenticity is concerned, Hollywood’s Vietnam War films have run the gamut from uncannily realistic to cartoonishly foolish.

Viewed through the prism of time, the years after World War II can seem like an idyllic era, with U.S. power supreme, the middle class thriving and families living stable “Ozzie and Harriet” lives after decades of war and economic depression.

It took 50 years for Louis Viscusi to overcome the mental obstacles that kept him from the blighted neighborhood in North Philadelphia that he always meant to visit.

After 73 years, Sgt. Alfonso O. Duran was still missing. A team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency arrivded to a small town in Slovenia ready to find Duran's remains and bring him home. Along the way, they got to know more about the soldier and the town that buried him.

The first battle of the Civil War was in April 1861 at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. But two years earlier — in Harpers Ferry, in what was then Virginia — a rebellion led by a 59-year-old John Brown sparked the South’s secession and the war.

During the past 75 years, through stories, photographs and videos, the Stars and Stripes staff has chronicled the history of America’s military in Europe. Below are some of the moments staff writers have covered, from the mundane to the shocking.

When United States forces arrived in England in 1942 and when its allies celebrated V-E day in May 1945, it was not envisioned how the world would change, and that the United States and others would be military partners in Europe today.

During the past 75 years, through stories, photographs and videos, the Stars and Stripes staff has chronicled the history of America’s military in Europe. Below are some of the moments staff writers have covered, from the mundane to the shocking.

Old Glory made its final descent Wednesday on the flagpole at Clay Headquarters Compound, a slow slide into history.

Dick Wingert went to art school to become an illustrator. The Army turned him into a cartoonist. After spending a year in Louisiana with the 34th Infantry Division he was sent to Ireland. Wingert was drawing cartoons and submitted samples to the newly re-established Stars and Stripes.

Andy Rooney was best-known as the curmudgeonly commentator who for three decades of Sunday nights opined briefly on the annoyances of everyday life for an audience of millions for "60 Minutes" on CBS. He detested soap on a rope, for instance.

Nancy “Nan” Robertson occupied a peculiar time for ambitious women. When she graduated from Northwestern University with a journalism degree in 1948, the war was over. The men were back, and the working women were sent home. So she moved to Europe. She spent about a year at Stars and Stripes as a copy editor and general assignment reporter in Germany before moving on to other publications.

Allan Morrison was Stars and Stripes’ first and only black reporter in World War II, when the services were segregated and African-American units for the most part were consigned to support duties in the rear.

Willie and Joe lie in their sleeping bags in the snow up against a log. "Remember that warm, soft mud last summer?" Willie says. The pair of unshaven, weary grunts slogged their way from Italy to Germany in the pages of Stars and Stripes during World War II — along with their creator, Army Sgt. Bill Mauldin.