Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, January 1968: A Marine passes the time playing his guitar surrounded by sandbags in a dugout at Khe Sanh Combat Base, just days after the North Vietnamese launched a massive ...
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 ...
Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...
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.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history ...
Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.
Khe Sanh Combat base, South Vietnam, Jan. 25, 1968: UPI photographer Dana Stone walks through tall grass while on patrol with Marines outside of Khe Sanh Combat Base. Stone went missing in April 1970 ...
More than 50 years after the Vietnam War gripped the world's attention, the battlefields where countless lives were lost have become poignant pilgrimage sites for veterans and tourists alike.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.