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How Vietnamese Commandos Captured a Secret U.S. Military Base This base was one of many ‘Lima Sites’ in Laos intended to facilitate aerial supply of U.S.-allied forces. Heres What You Need to Remember: Only thirty years later did the United States officially acknowledge the battle at the clandestine site. Etchberger would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony on September 1, 2010. Earlier in the 2000s, Vietnamese veterans of the battle helped U.S. military personnel locate th...

His People’s Militia amounted to almost nothing. Heres What You Need to Remember: In the West, some 150,000 VS men served and had helped to man the West Wall fortifications, as well as hold the Upper Rhine, but in the end, the VS had not achieved Himmler’s or Bormann’s goal. It is estimated that a million VS “troops” were taken prisoner by war’s end, and thousands more were killed and wounded. On October 18, 1944—the 131st anniversary of the Battle of the Nations’ victory over ...