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 ...

They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following historical recollection was contributed by Leon Cederlind of Phillips, who was a U.S. Marines helicopter pilot and first lieutenant from 1964 to 1970. He served during the ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 3, 1968: Two Marines watch as smoke from a burning supply pit that received a direct hit by North Vietnamese artillery rises into the sky. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 10, 1968: Marines lay down barbed wire on the perimeter of Khe Sanh base. North Vietnamese troops had been harassing the base in previous months with rockets, artillery ...

Some 53 years ago, in a faraway Special Forces camp in southeast Asia, Sergeant First Class Eugene Ashley Jr achieved immortality during one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Ashley’s ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh was one of the Vietnam War’s most harrowing and hard-fought clashes. Centered on the Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwestern Quảng Trị Province, U.S. Marines came under relentless ...

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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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 ...

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