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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the summer of 1965, just months after the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at Da Nang, the intensity of the Vietnam War ...

Donat LeBlanc, a New Bedford native, served in the Vietnam War in 1966 as a Marine. He served nine months before being severely wounded during a medevac mission where he lost his right arm. He later ...

Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas.