While activated during the Vietnam War, 173rd Airborne Brigade was known as 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) and spent most of its time in the country of Vietnam.

On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam were ambushed by over 1200 V.C. Forty-eight American soldiers lost their lives that day.

Troops of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade dash for cover after helicopter landing in the Viet Cong infested D-zone stronghold 20 miles Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam on May 4, 1966. Loaded down with ...

When Jim Matchin visits the home of his former unit, the 173rd Airborne Brigade, he sees memorials to fallen soldiers from World War II and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matchin, who served ...

DeRuggiero, who served with the Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade, rescued three badly wounded paratroopers while exchanging fire with the enemy near Bao Loc, Vietnam on June 17, 1968, according to a ...

Vietnam veterans who served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade will gather at a memorial at the National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center to remember 76 Sky Soldiers who died 50 years ago in the ...

The 173rd Airborne Brigade was organized back in 1917 as an infantry brigade at Camp Pike, Arkansas, a part of the 87th Division.

An internal inquiry had confirmed an officer’s widely publicized charge that members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade had tortured detainees in Vietnam.

In the desperate fight for Hill 875 in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands, at least 20 soldiers from the United States Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade were killed in one of the deadliest friendly ...

For William Smith, a U.S. Army Ranger and Purple Heart recipient who was in the 173rd in those Vietnam days, the display on the 7-year-old cemetery's Memorial Walk brings back memories for him ...

An iconic Vietnam War photograph shot June 18, 1965, by the late Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Horst Faas that is captioned as an unidentified American soldier of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ...

Artillerymen of the 173rd US Airborne Brigade adjust their 105 artillery for a fire mission conducted from a ridge in the foothills of Binh Ding against observed North Vietnamese infiltrators in a ...