When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...
Bong Son, Vietnam, Feb. 2, 1966: Ground crewmen prepare to refuel a Scout H-13 helicopter during the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s participation in Operation White Wing. Flying “low and slow,” the pilots ...
WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...
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‘Captain, we have an inferno starting’: How one flare nearly destroyed a Navy aircraft carrier
In October 1966, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was preparing for flight ops off Vietnam when a routine ordnance evolution turned catastrophic. -Two sailors accidentally ignited a Mk 24 ...
Tuy Hoa Valley, South Vietnam, Dec. 11, 1966: Troops of the 28th Republic of Korea (ROK) Regimental Combat Team use a raft of 6 inner tubes to float equipment across a river in Tuy Hoa Valley. Looking ...
When he was a child growing up in segregated Alabama, Jerome Gary Cooper snuck into the balcony of a movie theater to see a movie in which John Wayne played a Marine, his daughter Shawn Cooper ...
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