When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson was reportedly quoted as saying American pilots could not bomb an outhouse without his approval. Frustrated pilots found themselves “flying into heavily defended areas on ...
Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric M. Smith, pins Cpl. Daniel Heller, a Vietnam veteran, during his Navy Cross award ceremony at Marine Barracks Washington, Washington D.C., on Aug. 28, 2024.
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 ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Saturday, the Veterans National Memorial Shrine and Museum will pay tribute to all local Vietnam Veterans whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. The program ...
For three days last week, the government sought to make up for decades of neglect with a series of events on the National Mall meant as a symbolic "homecoming" for Vietnam veterans. The United States ...
Dave Dumas, a Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran who turned 74 years old Tuesday, has been volunteering and helping to feed and ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LEWISTON — The Marine Corps League, Central Maine Detachment 810, and the ...
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 ...
Marine veteran and Cambria County Commissioner Keith Rager acknowledges Marine veterans in attendance to a Marine Corps 250-year anniversary ceremony in the Cambria County Courthouse rotunda in ...
The Spirit of Liberty Foundation hosted a historic Patriotic Celebration dinner for the 250th birthday of the United States ...