Writer and historian Bernard B. Fall is killed by a Viet Cong mine while accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol along the seacoast about 14 miles northwest of Hue, on a road known as the "Street Without Joy" (which Fall had used for the title of one of his books about the war). A professor of international relations at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Fall was a French citizen and noted expert on the war in Vietnam. He was killed while gathering material for his eighth book. A U.S. Marine photographer was also killed.
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Feb 21, 1967:
Bernard Fall killed by mine in South Vietnam
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This Week in History, Feb 21 - Feb 27
- Feb 21, 1967
- Bernard Fall killed by mine in South Vietnam
- Feb 21, 1970
- Kissinger begins secret negotiations with North Vietnamese
- Feb 21, 1972
- Nixon visits China
- Feb 22, 1965
- Westmoreland asks for Marines
- Feb 22, 1967
- Operation Junction City begins
- Feb 23, 1966
- Desertion up in South Vietnamese army
- Feb 23, 1971
- South Vietnamese advance stalls
- Feb 24, 1968
- Hue recaptured
- Feb 24, 1969
- Airman wins Medal of Honor for action on this day
- Feb 25, 1971
- Congress moves to block widening of the war
- Feb 25, 1972
- U.S. troops fight biggest battle in nearly a year
- Feb 26, 1965
- First South Korean troops arrive
- Feb 26, 1968
- Mass graves discovered in Hue
- Feb 27, 1962
- Diem survives coup attempt
- Feb 27, 1965
- United States assails North Vietnamese "aggression"
- Feb 27, 1969
- Communist offensive continues
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