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 ...

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 ...

Michael Archer, who lives in Reno with his wife and three children, signed up for the Marines in 1967. He and his best friend, Tom Mahoney, enlisted not for patriotic reasons but, for Tom, to get out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 1968: Two U.S. Marines on their way to a helicopter as they complete their tour of duty at besieged Khe Sanh walk past the wreckage of an Air Force transport plane on ...

Oroville >> In the early morning hours of Jan. 21, 1968 the first explosions of artillery fire rang out through the dense jungle of the Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, marking the beginning of what ...

CHICO — The Siege of Khe Sanh was life changing, and it brings former Marines together every year. Yet when they meet, they don’t talk about the longest battle of the Vietnam War. “We all know what ...

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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 ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, January 1968: A Marine passes the time playing his guitar surrounded by sandbags in a dugout at Khe Sanh Combat Base, just days after the North Vietnamese launched a massive ...