When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...

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 ...

When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, nobody fired a shot at them. But later that day, as he drove his M48 ...

I applaud the local veterans who were highlighted in the story about local Vietnam veterans (“Shock and awfulness,” Herald, May 3.) Each of them served honorably, and their stories were well worth ...

CLEVES, Ohio (ENQUIRER) - Daniel Leroy “Duke” Heller spent 13 months and eight days in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. On Wednesday – 55 years, six months and 15 days after what he ...

Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx and decorated Marine Vietnam Veteran has been named the 2024 Military Veteran of the Year by Military Times. He is proud of his Marine Corps service and is quoted ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...

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 ...

She feared this was about her husband, Paul, a Marine Corps lieutenant in Vietnam. They had been married only a few months, and his class had just completed the Basic Officer Course in Quantico, ...

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