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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ron Rees knew a firestorm awaited him when his plane touched down 50 years ago in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. What he did not know was where to run. Rees, who now lives in Cove, was one of about two ...

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 one of the Vietnam War’s most harrowing and hard-fought clashes. Centered on the Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwestern Quảng Trị Province, U.S. Marines came under relentless ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...