This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most publicized skirmishes of the Vietnam War, the battle of Khe Sanh. The battle started Jan. 21, 1968, when the North Vietnamese and ...

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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 ...

In early April 1968, US forces launched a massive joint operation to reopen Route 9 and relieve Khe Sanh Combat Base after months of North Vietnamese pressure. Marines advanced along the road while ...

TIME Correspondent Don Sider spent several days at Khe Sanh last week ducking incoming shells and observing the unique quality of life in the besieged Marine base. His report: A chill, grey mist hangs ...

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 ...

Bill Rider considered himself a grizzled veteran of the Vietnam War that late January night in 1968 when the first waves of North Vietnamese soldiers and their Viet Cong allies attacked U.S. and South ...

This week marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the day Lyle Tate from Portland was killed in action on Hill 778 near Khe Sanh. Having just recently survived one of the most challenging battles of the ...

WATERLOO | Not even a full year out of Independence High School, Merlyn McFee found himself in the middle of the Vietnam War, with the U.S. Marines. “During my senior year, I signed up; that summer, I ...