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 ...
American airpower was supposed to be untouchable in Vietnam. Instead, U.S. pilots found themselves struggling against smaller ...
The heroic actions of Danny Hernandez during Operation UTAH, March 1966, went unrecognized for over four decades due to lost ...
This video highlights the remarkable story of a U.S. Navy Corpsman who earned three Purple Hearts while risking his life to ...
Anniversaries are usually times to celebrate—a birth, a marriage, a victory, an extraordinary achievement. But last month’s fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War was not for most ...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Ever heard the name Dan Bullock? Many haven’t. His story is one of extraordinary bravery, a childhood cut short, and a sacrifice that should never be forgotten. At just 15 years ...
Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...
PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD) — American flags now adorn the road leading to the Marine Corps League in Pekin, in honor of Stan Newell, a Vietnam War veteran who was a Prisoner of War (POW) for nearly six years.
During his adolescence, William Fong's entire world was contained in San Francisco. But in 1967, over a decade into the Vietnam War, he was drafted. At age 20, he left his home in the city's Chinatown ...
Pete Peterson, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, became the first American ambassador. A prerequisite for these advances in bilateral relations was that Vietnam ...