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The U.S. Marines storm Da Nang, marking the first major ground troop deployment of the Vietnam War. This was the beginning of ...
Jerry Smith was born and raised on a farm in Calhoun County in 1946. After graduating from the local high school in 1965, he ...
Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.
A South Carolina lawmaker’s bill would waive the requirement that troops receive the Medal of Honor within five years of ...
The Guinness World Records recognized a Vietnamese company for the most numerous multi-rotor/drone airborne formation simultaneously ...
The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...
In the fall of 1967, a land mine in Vietnam killed a Fort Mill teen, husband and expectant father on his first patrol as a ...
Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 ...
From Navy enlistee to a Navy pilot, David Edwards flew fighters on 260 missions in Vietnam during a 31-year military career.
James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War ... the three of them. The helicopter that eventually picked up the three Marines was shot down.
The bright May sky heavily contrasted with the atmosphere on the south lawn of Packard Music Hall as people from Trumbull ...
Jerry Smith was born and raised on a farm in Calhoun County in 1946. After graduating from the local high school in 1965, he ...