The Marines stationed at Con Thien were constantly frightened. The military base located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized ...

Ngo Thi Diem Anh holds a photo of Pfc. James Anderson in Huế, Vietnam. For his new book "Crossing the DMZ," Milwaukee's Dennis Darmek photographed Vietnamese people holding pictures of young Marines ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

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 ...

Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially ...

Escalation of the Viet Nam war is almost always spoken of as an American prerogative, but Hanoi also regularly raises the ante. Aided by an increasing flow of fresh weaponry from Russia and Red China ...

AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Jim Hall graduated from Leon High School in 1966. Otherwise, he’s a lifelong citizen of Augusta. He’s also a lifelong Marine who was ordered to Vietnam in the middle of the Tet ...

“You feel like an ant on a dart board,” says a young U.S. Marine at Gio Linh, the American artillery base carved out of the top of a hill overlooking North Viet Nam (see color opposite). The camp’s ...

Richard Schiltz served with the U.S. Marines from 1966 to 1969. He was raised in Billings. This is part of his story. Schiltz: “I knew I wasn’t going back (to college in Minnesota) with my 0.79 ...

On Veterans Day, two Marines shared their memories outside of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in Newburgh. Dan Clarino and Richard Lay were both injured in combat during the Vietnam War, and ...