When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...

John W. Ripley, 69, a highly decorated Marine Corps officer and demolitions expert during the Vietnam War whose destruction of a strategic bridge was credited with helping repel a Communist-led ...

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 ...

Although the author mentions that Marines remained in Vietnam as advisers to the Vietnamese Marine Corps after U.S. Marine combat units departed in 1971, he largely ignores the contribution of the ...

Da Nang, South Vietnam, Aug. 15, 1968: President Nguyen Van Thieu talks with female Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops during a ceremony marking the 11th anniversary of the ARVN’s I Corps.

Some 53 years ago, in a faraway Special Forces camp in southeast Asia, Sergeant First Class Eugene Ashley Jr achieved immortality during one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War. Ashley’s ...

It was an overcast morning Wednesday in Westminster, much like it was 50 years ago to the day in Saigon, when the South Vietnamese capital fell to communist forces and the last American troops left ...