Nov. 11—CUMBERLAND — On a warm summer day in 1967, Cpl. Ron Gulbronson found himself on his back and badly injured with dead comrades all around during a mortar attack on his unit in Vietnam.

SAN DIEGO — When the battle was over, Marines who fought in Vietnam labeled Hill 881 South “a deadly killing zone” in the long siege of Khe Sanh. Twenty-seven Marines were killed and 50 wounded — in ...

A company of Marines fought up a hill near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, on April 30, 1967. Within two days, three-quarters of them left the bomb-cratered slopes of 881 South bloodied or dead. With 27 killed and ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. - Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War's siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...

Few Americans had it rougher in the Vietnam War than the 6,000 or so Marines who were caught at Khe Sanh during the infamous January–April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army. Corbett was one of ...

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. His new book is America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. In late 1967 and ...

SAN DIEGO — Two Vietnam veterans were awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star medals for their courage in a battle on a jungle hillside where more than 75 percent of the troops with them that day were ...

The 77-day siege, which began 50 years ago tomorrow, began when an isolated American combat base was surrounded by tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. Although the US soldiers grimly held on ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. – Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War’s siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...