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Staunton native Clarence “Bo” Obie III is remembered as a hero who gave his life in the Vietnam War, but to his siblings, ...
The Marines stationed at Con Thien were constantly frightened. The military base located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized ...
It serves as a reminder of the heavy price to be paid by those doing the fighting when impractical or even impossible orders ...
a trial lawyer who was a Marine helicopter door gunner during the height of the fighting in Vietnam in the late 1960s. “I was on the ground about a week before I figured out that there was no way we ...
Marines John Ghilain ... two in a series marking 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.
A Des Moines Technical High School graduate and Marine helicopter pilot who evacuated the U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam ...
Richard Carey formed leadership skills in Grove City and Columbus that would frame a distinguished 38-year military career ...
If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over ...
The capture of Saigon – the capital of America's ally South Vietnam – by communist North Vietnamese forces on 30 April 1975, ...
On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots evacuated more than 7,000 ...