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Navy, Chaplain Corps, 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein), FMF., Quang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam, 4 September 1967. CAPODANNO, VINCENT R. (posthumous), Lieutenant, U.S.Navy, Company M, 3d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division., Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.

BALLARD, DONALD E., Hospital Corpsman Second Class, U.S.Navy Recipients (select name for complete citation) Their names are followed by their rank and rate, if known, the date of the action and the vessel or unit on which they served. "The 10,000-Day War at Sea: The U.S.These individuals earned the Navy Medal of Honor during the period specified. Numerous interesting examples of resources available on the NHHC website have been grouped into the categories below. Researchers should review these finding aids for availability of records from a selection of archival collections. Navy's involvement in what became the United States' most divisive twentieth-century war. The Naval History and Heritage Command offers a multitude of resources and collections that chronicle the U.S. An estimated one to three million people, including over 58,000 American service members, were killed during the conflict. Although advisory activities continued into 1975 and the fall of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, the last regular U.S. military and political strategic aims, the unstable South Vietnamese government, and, most crucially, by the steady erosion of popular support in an increasingly vocal and critical U.S. U.S and allied operational successes in the field were counterbalanced by shifting U.S. The rise of the North Vietnamese-supported Viet Cong insurgency and eventual direct military involvement of North Vietnam expanded these roles to the point at which regular U.S. Against the background of the Cold War, the Vietnam War embroiled the United States, South Vietnam, and regional allies in a long and costly conflict against the regular forces of North Vietnam and the Communist Viet Cong guerillas.įollowing the end of French colonial rule in 1954 and break-up of the former French Indochina, the United States assumed the political mentorship and primary military and naval advisory roles in the young South Vietnamese republic.