Khe Sanh Base, South Vietnam, March 10, 1968: Ammunition, food and medical supplies float on parachute from C-130 cargo plane into the Marine fortress of Khe Sanh. At the foreground a pensive Marine ...

In this Feb. 5, 1968, file photo, a blinded U.S. Marine, left, holds his hand out in front of him as he is led by a wounded comrade from his evacuation helicopter that brought them from Hill 861 to ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 1968: Two U.S. Marines on their way to a helicopter as they complete their tour of duty at besieged Khe Sanh walk past the wreckage of an Air Force transport plane on ...

Larry Grant Jones, a USMC Vietnam War veteran and Silver Star recipient, died March 2 at his home in Tuolumne County. He was 78. Jones earned the Silver Star in July 1968 by saving more than 20 of his ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. – Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War’s siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...

One of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War took place at Khe Sanh. January, 1968 One of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War took place at Khe Sanh, beginning in January of 1968. Both a Navy ...

Oroville >> In the early morning hours of Jan. 21, 1968 the first explosions of artillery fire rang out through the dense jungle of the Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, marking the beginning of what ...

Bob Perkins had barely cleared the chopper’s blades when he was scrambled into action: “We were told to grab equipment and gear from piles – ammo clips, canteens – stuff we figured belonged to guys ...

Ralph Sargent swears he felt the 152-millimeter artillery round fly by as he crouched in his foxhole dug into the red clay of Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, narrowly missing him and hitting a pallet about ...

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