When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MAP LISTING; PART I-PRE-TET 1968; CHAPTER 1-A Puzzling War; III MAF January 1968; MACV and Command Arrangements; South Vietnam and I Corps; The Enemy; Focus on ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — For the soldiers and Marines fighting on the front lines in Vietnam, the comforts of home could not have been farther away. But throughout the war, angels in blue appeared from the sky ...

A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought through severe injuries while under attack on a mission in the jungles of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Dodge City native Jesse Ramos answered the call to service in 1968 by joining the Marines. “I really did like the Marine Corps uniforms, but I think maybe once I got to ‘Nam, I ...

She was a little girl, recalled Ca-Tisha Ashlock-Adams, when men from the government would call at her grandmother’s house in West Philadelphia, bringing news on the search for her son, Marines Cpl.

Clinton Larry Smith, a decorated Vietnam veteran and retired Marine Corps sergeant from Andalusia, passed away at 78, leaving ...