Every February, Black History Month shines a light on Americans whose contributions shaped the nation. One belongs to Pfc.

Capt. George Phillips told his story to a group of young Marines and Sailors as they visited the site of the military ...

By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...

In 1966 Vietnam, U.S. Marine Corps snipers Carlos Hathcock, known as Lông Trắng (The White Feather), and John Burke are on a mission to eliminate a deadly NVA sniper, Cobra, who's been terrorizing ...

Jerry Haywood of Coshocton served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969. Haywood is still chaplain of Coshocton County Vietnam Veterans and was president of ...

Donat LeBlanc, a New Bedford native, served in the Vietnam War in 1966 as a Marine. He served nine months before being severely wounded during a medevac mission where he lost his right arm. He later ...

During the monsoon season of 1965, US Marines and South Vietnamese troops advanced into a known enemy stronghold. A sudden ...

NEWBURGH, N.Y. (PIX11) — On Veterans Day, two Marines shared their memories outside of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in Newburgh. Dan Clarino and Richard Lay were both injured in combat ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MAP LISTING; PART I-PRE-TET 1968; CHAPTER 1-A Puzzling War; III MAF January 1968; MACV and Command Arrangements; South Vietnam and I Corps; The Enemy; Focus on ...

Jesse Bulldog walked the length of a traveling memorial dedicated to the 58,000 servicemembers who died during the Vietnam War. At each of the 141 panels, he stopped and wafted sage ash in a warrior ...