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...
US Marines in Dramatic Rescue from Enemy Trap; AMERICAN COMMANDERS COMPARE FALLUJAH BATTLE TO VIETNAM
Raising two fingers in a ‘V’ shifted in meaning from ‘Victory’ to ‘Peace.’ Track the change from World War II to the Vietnam War eras. The US Raised the Iwo Jima Flag, then Occupied the Islands for 23 Years The U.S. occupation of the Ogasawara, or Bonin, Islands was anything...
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...
Army members have been awarded the medal since the award was created in 1944, which means there have been medal winners since World War Two, up through the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq. These army, air force, and other military heroes showed extreme bravery in dire combat situations, ...
Marines Enter Trip-Wired Fallujah ; Billed as the Biggest Urban Fight since Vietnam, US Forces Launched a Major Assault at Nightfall
Vietnam War - US Involvement, Conflict, Outcome: The United States began a campaign of sustained air strikes against the North that were code-named Rolling Thunder.
Vietnam War, (1954–75), a protracted conflict that pitted thecommunistgovernment of NorthVietnamand its allies in South Vietnam, known as theViet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, theUnited States. Called the “American War” in Vietnam (or, in full,...
Public sentiment turned against the draft during the Vietnam War, in part because of the availability of deferments that seemed to favour the wealthy and powerful, spreading a perception that the poor were shouldering more than their fair share of the burden. That perception, combined with the ...