His father and grandfather had served in war, so that's what ... within Delta Company, the ambush of October 17 came just three months after he arrived in Vietnam, and what mattered on that ...
Superior officers begin portraying the ambush as a victory that ... April: U.S. deaths in Vietnam surpass the roughly 33,000 lost in the Korean War. October 15: An estimated two million protesters ...
Take a look inside the stifling tunnels, one of the Vietnam War's best-preserved relics. After around a two-hour journey from my hostel in Ho Chi Minh City, formally known as Saigon, I arrived at ...
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 1965 file photo, U.S. troops carry bodies of air cavalrymen to an evacuation helicopter as more bodies lie on the ground at the site of an ambush by communist forces in the ...
Upshur County held a tribute for Gilmer native, Billy Wayne Machen who was the first U.S. Navy SEAL killed during the Vietnam ...
While U.S. troops and the Vietcong ambush each other in the ladrang Valley ... If the demands of the Vietnam war should ever necessitate removal of American troops from Germany, a very abrupt ...
As I reviewed Covington native Jimmy Cronan’s personal Vietnam War journal, I realized the best ... That night we’re on ambush duty; we stay 10 feet apart, (and) it’s dark and lonely.
The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... from the Americans to ambush patrols.
18, 2024, at the Army Heritage and Education Center to recognize the bravery and dedication of four Vietnam War veterans ... a soldier who had been in the ambush the day before, 'How close ...
On Thursday, Upshur County residents, elected officials and Machen family members dedicated the Camp Billy Machen Memorial ...