Standing on the U.S. Embassy roof as tanks rumbled toward Saigon and gunfire rang out below, Juan Valdez wondered if he and his fellow Marines might have actually been forgotten. Working through the ...
On March 8, 1965, at 9 a.m., United States marines landed on a beach ten miles north of the city of Da Nang, South Vietnam. Americans had been providing direct military support in South Vietnam since ...
During the fall of the South Vietnamese capital in 1975, he helped evacuate thousands, and was nearly left behind. By Trip Gabriel Juan Jose Valdez, the last American serviceman to leave Vietnam, who ...
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U.S. Marines in Vietnam – The First to Fight
March 8, 1965: The U.S. Marines storm Da Nang, marking the first major ground troop deployment of the Vietnam War. This was the beginning of America’s longest war. Pelosi hits Trump on LA: Where was ...
In 1983, I promised an Atlanta mother I would uncover the truth about what happened to her youngest son, who disappeared in Vietnam 56 years ago. Now, more than 42 years after that promise, I might be ...
A 76-year-old Vietnam War veteran from Anne Arundel County fulfilled a dream decades after leaving school to serve the nation ...
Sgt. James H. Waller of Lakeland and Pfc. Richard T. Sarakas, died on May 13, 1967, during a fierce battle in Vietnam, both ...
Armed with six 106mm recoilless rifles, the M50 Ontos delivered concentrated firepower in Vietnam’s toughest fights. Beehive rounds unleashed tens of thousands of steel flechettes to clear enemy ...
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