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
The U.S. Marine Corps was created on Nov. 10, 1775. It is a combined-arms task force known for its focus on aggressiveness and the offensive. The Marines have been central in developing groundbreaking tactics for maneuver warfare; they can be credited with the development of helicopter ...
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
In past conflicts,he predicted the failure of enemy offensives and foresaw events like the second Middle East War,Prince Sihanouk's return,the outcome of the Vietnam War,the Pueblo Incident,and the assassination of Park Chung-hee.His insights also extended to the链接1998,he identified steam as...
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.
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 ...
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,...