The mortar exploded, mauling John Loosen’s left leg, kidney and most of his stomach. The 19-year-old Army infantryman was rushed back to the Cu Chi base camp in Vietnam, where the leg was amputated ...
He spent most of his time in Vietnam helping the 25th Infantry Division Support Command, which had a base camp at Cu Chi, an area known for underground enemy tunnels. The Garrett County native said he ...
WILLIAMSPORT — It's odd to think of tractor-trailers in the jungles of South Vietnam, but convoys of 40 to 50 trucks of various types carried supplies for soldiers — where the roads were passable — ...
The flight to Vietnam took 17 hours. Newly minted as a U.S. Army infantryman, 24-year-old Charlie Haughey sat on a commercial airliner headed to Bien Hoa Air Base, where he would spend two weeks doing ...
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