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 ...

Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...

Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...

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 ...

One of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War took place at Khe Sanh. January, 1968 One of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War took place at Khe Sanh, beginning in January of 1968. Both a Navy ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. The 77-day siege, which began 50 years ago tomorrow, began when an isolated American combat base ...

The young Marine lieutenant is dead, and his desperate men grimace as they drag him by the wrists from the jungle, where they have just been ambushed near the Marine outpost of Khe Sanh. One of them ...

The 77-day siege, which began 50 years ago tomorrow, began when an isolated American combat base was surrounded by tens of thousands of North Vietnamese troops. Although the US soldiers grimly held on ...

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 ...