The Marines stationed at Con Thien were constantly frightened. The military base located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized ...

The heroic actions of Danny Hernandez during Operation UTAH, March 1966, went unrecognized for over four decades due to lost ...

Ngo Thi Diem Anh holds a photo of Pfc. James Anderson in Huế, Vietnam. For his new book "Crossing the DMZ," Milwaukee's Dennis Darmek photographed Vietnamese people holding pictures of young Marines ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

Many veterans who saw action in the Vietnam War have described military operations conducted in the A Shau Valley as hell on Earth. Nevertheless, the young men of the 9th Marine Regiment and the 2nd ...

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 ...

Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially ...

Escalation of the Viet Nam war is almost always spoken of as an American prerogative, but Hanoi also regularly raises the ante. Aided by an increasing flow of fresh weaponry from Russia and Red China ...

Two Greensboro Marines, serving decades apart, share stories of service, sacrifice and the unbreakable bond that lasts years ...

Richard Schiltz served with the U.S. Marines from 1966 to 1969. He was raised in Billings. This is part of his story. Schiltz: “I knew I wasn’t going back (to college in Minnesota) with my 0.79 ...

AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Jim Hall graduated from Leon High School in 1966. Otherwise, he’s a lifelong citizen of Augusta. He’s also a lifelong Marine who was ordered to Vietnam in the middle of the Tet ...