These pages contain the memories of Marines and Corpsmen of Battalion Landing Team 2/26 -- the DMZ Rats -- who fought the Battles of LZ Margo and then endured another month of grueling combat patrols across Vietnam's DMZ during September and October 1968
Operation Dewey Canyon, US Marines in Vietnam, a non-fiction account of the last major, and extraordinarily successful, Marine battle of the Vietnam War. He also has written a novel,The Hypocrite, A Celestial Murder Mystery; the non-fictionMasters of the Art, A Fighting Marine’s Memoir of...
- Marine Corps strength: 154,909 (0.05% of U.S. population) Marines reached another major integration milestone in 2019: For the first time, the Corps integrated a small platoon of female recruits into larger training exercises with their male counterparts. ...
- Marine Corps strength: 154,909 (0.05% of U.S. population) Marines reached another major integration milestone in 2019: For the first time, the Corps integrated a small platoon of female recruits into larger training exercises with their male counterparts. ...
US Marines in Dramatic Rescue from Enemy Trap; AMERICAN COMMANDERS COMPARE FALLUJAH BATTLE TO VIETNAM
Note: NVA casualty data was provided by North Vietnam in a press release to Agence France Presse (AFP) on April 3, 1995, on the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The entire press release is reproduced below. US casualty information was derived from the Combat Area ...
1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted...
Thomas McPhatter, one of several hundred African American Marines who joined in the attack as amphibious truck drivers and ammunition handlers, later described the hellish scene to the Guardian. “I jumped in a foxhole and there was a young white Marine holding his family pictures,” he said...
The 1960s brought another set of challenges. The Cold War began that decade, and Cuba became the face of America's closest communist threat. Vietnam, a war that many protested, began with troops arriving in the country as early as 1965. From the 1970s to the 1980s, the U.S. struggle...
Gunnery Sgt. Richard Remp served in World War II and stayed in the Marines all the way through the Vietnam War. May 31, 2024 Ex-U.S. Marine pilot can be extradited, Australian judge says Daniel Duggan has spent 19 months in maximum-security prison since he was arrested in 2022 at his...