Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...
BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...
From his pilot perch in the busy cockpit of a workhorse CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, Marine 1st Lt. Harold G. “Hal” Walker witnessed the horrors and heroics of the Vietnam War. “I was an observer, ...
When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...
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