Hacker News with Generative AI: Vietnam War

Out of the Fog (theverge.com)
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.
Vietnam War, Adoption, History, Social Issues, Personal Stories
149 points by wapasta 5 days ago | 34 comments
Maintenance of two infamous guns: the AK-47 and the M16 (worksinprogress.co)
SOME OF THE MOST VALUED MANUALS focus on known weaknesses of the device in question.  John Hall’s musket manual did that.  So did John Muir’s VW manual.  This digression-within-a-digression examines what was behind the most famous of all manuals dedicated solely to maintaining a flawed tool.  It emerged from the Vietnam War and is one of the harshest maintenance dramas in history.
Military History, Weapons, Vietnam War
11 points by speckx 39 days ago | 0 comments
The South Vietnamese pilot who landed a Cessna on a carrier to save his family (2019) (historynet.com)
As his country crumbled, a South Vietnamese pilot attempting a high-risk landing on the Midway depended on the ship’s quick-thinking crew to save his family from disaster.
Vietnam War, Military History, Aviation, Escape
374 points by stmw 90 days ago | 179 comments