Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Philip LaBatte of Loudonville, a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Battle of Khe Sanh during the ...

They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army 1st Lt. Paul R. Longgrear, the Mobile Strike Force company commander at Lang Vei, is helped to a Marine aid station at Khe ...

pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. The lull between the storms -- pt. 3. The buildup and the opening round -- pt. 4. The "so-called" siege begins -- pt. 5. The airlift -- pt. 6. Supporting arms and ...

The gem of American military superiority in Vietnam was the strategic Marine Corps base a Khe Sanh. Located a few miles from the borders of North Vietnam and Laos, Khe Sanh was heavily fortified in ...

As allied patrols scoured the scorched and battered moonscape around the liberated Marine garrison of Khe Sanh last week, they found North Vietnamese trenches and bunkers, tons of supplies and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following historical recollection was contributed by Leon Cederlind of Phillips, who was a U.S. Marines helicopter pilot and first lieutenant from 1964 to 1970. He served during the ...

7.75 x 11.75 in. (19.7 x 29.8 cm.) ...