This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, March 5, 2018. It is republished unedited in its original form. Marine vet recalls battle that claimed his best friend DONG HA, ...
The story of Dick's discharge began in June 1969. He was back at Camp Lejeune after a hard combat tour in Central Vietnam, ...
Standing on the U.S. Embassy roof as tanks rumbled toward Saigon and gunfire rang out below, Juan Valdez wondered if he and his fellow Marines might have actually been forgotten. Working through the ...
Many veterans who saw action in the Vietnam War have described military operations conducted in the A Shau Valley as hell on Earth. Nevertheless, the young men of the 9th Marine Regiment and the 2nd ...
Shot down, captured and held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," Frank Cius has a story unique to even most Vietnam War veterans.
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 ...
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It was a few weeks into a months-long operation in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley on Feb. 13, 1969, when Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller stepped off on patrol to find the elusive North Vietnamese ...
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