When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...

March, 1966. Quảng Ngãi Province, Republic of Vietnam. Operation UTAH - a joint operation between the U.S. Marines and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) to fight North Vietnamese Army (NVA) ...

When he was a child growing up in segregated Alabama, Jerome Gary Cooper snuck into the balcony of a movie theater to see a movie in which John Wayne played a Marine, his daughter Shawn Cooper ...

South Vietnam, October 1966: A Marine helicopter lands on the hill landing zone to bring supplies and evacuate the wounded. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the Vietnam War? Subscribe to ...

The Navy has christened its newest destroyer in the name of Patrick Gallagher, a Camp Pendleton-trained Marine who threw himself on a hand grenade in Vietnam in July 1966, protecting fellow Marines ...