Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.
We’ve been following Karl Porisch, who graduated from Mankato State in 1968 and completed Marine Corps officer and helicopter flight training. The Marines assigned Karl to Okinawa, while his spouse ...
Many of Pitts’ soldiers believed they would not have made it through the ordeal had it not been for the leadership of their ...
For decades, Southold’s main soundfront beach was known simply as Town Beach. Now, it will bear the name of a longtime public ...
Columnist Justice B. Hill recently traveled to Vietnam, retracing the past and grappling with the unresolved loss of his ...
A Cold War Thriller. By Bill Rapp/Coffeetown Press. Reviewed by Kenneth Dekleva. The Reviewer – Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medic ...
In this photo, children on their way home from school pass the bodies of dead Viet Cong soldiers. In another photo by Faas, this Vietnamese litter bearer, responsible for helping deal with a mass ...
Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork left them unrecognized.
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U.S. MARINE (Vietnam war)
The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965.
Authorities in Nam Dinh Province have successfully dismantled a large-scale drug trafficking network that operated through ...