U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War -- the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans are gathering to ...

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 ...

In this Feb. 5, 1968, file photo, a blinded U.S. Marine, left, holds his hand out in front of him as he is led by a wounded comrade from his evacuation helicopter that brought them from Hill 861 to ...

Larry Grant Jones, a USMC Vietnam War veteran and Silver Star recipient, died March 2 at his home in Tuolumne County. He was 78. Jones earned the Silver Star in July 1968 by saving more than 20 of his ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War...The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, a coastal province of South Vietnam ...

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 ...

Everything changed for the Military Assistance Command -- Vietnam (MACV), the U.S. military command sent to support the South Vietnamese regime, in 1968. MACV commander Army Gen. William Westmoreland, ...

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 ...