War Setting

The Vietnam War mostly took place in Vietnam but their were also a few battles in Laos and Cambodia. Vietnam was split into two nations by the 17th Parallel, and became North and South Vietnam. Aerial bombings forced the fighting to spill into other parts of Indochina. The U.S. Government claimed that an American ship was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin by the Vietnamese. This attack was used as an excuse to declare war on Vietnam. In a village called My Lai, American soldiers brutally murdered innocent Vietnamese citizens, this included women and children. The Vietnamese government retaliated in revenge. A trail known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail supplied the South with supplies from the North.