Barely more than two years after Green Beret Robert Howard’s heroic attempt to retrieve a severely injured lieutenant from enemy-controlled territory during the Vietnam War, he stood before ...

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiquity and cliché ...

The context here makes all the difference. The Vietnam War was raging when “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” came out, and anti-war sentiment was just starting to bubble up in young people and ...

U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to ...

and "The Green Berets" (1968), starring John Wayne. Additionally, he discusses the tragedies and aftermath of the Vietnam War, connecting the Mỹ Lai massacre to the civilian deaths in "Born on ...

The war songs of the twentieth century can be ... Barry Sadler's best selling album, "Ballads of the Green Berets," purports to fall into this last category, and the jacket blurb is certain ...

As the Cold War escalates, American forces are ... Kennedy increases the number of American military advisors in Vietnam and forms the Green Berets, a Special Forces group trained to conduct ...

Kennedy wanted it to be South Vietnam fighting South Vietnam's war, with American help ... going to build schools and hospitals. And the Green Berets get started in the military.