In January 1968, the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. The siege lasted 77 days and was one of the longest and most gruesome battles in ...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the ...
Charles C. Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon in 1970. But a profile of the Vietnam War veteran ...
Time now for StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative ... It was 6 miles from North Vietnam, and we started taking fire. And now your reality sets in. You're here, you know? You're going to have ...
trying to keep the country from being overrun by communist North Vietnam,” military historian and Broomfield Veterans Museum board member Flint Whitlock said. Whitlock has been one of the board ...
This provoked President Johnson into retaliating with military attacks in North Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder President Johnson ordered the bombing of strategic military targets in North Vietnam.