Con Thien sat just below the DMZ and gave American forces a commanding view of the approaches from the north, but it was also ...

In 1967, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Fossel was engaged in one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. He later protested that war. Now 75 years old, the Little Compton writer and organic farmer ...

Crawling out of his sandbagged bunker, the helmeted Marine blinks in the afternoon light, cocks his head for a moment, listening intently, and then starts jogtrotting down the hill. With frayed ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, May 18, 1967. It is republished unedited in its original form. Tom Dreiling — one of the two Stars and Stripes correspondents ...

As in his previous Vietnam War memoir, Con Thien: The Hill of Angels, Coan gives a reflective account concentrated on his time as a young U.S. Marine lieutenant commanding a five-tank platoon at an ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The Oct. 6, 1967, cover of TIME Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, ...