Ohio native Michael Ryan was 18 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1963, and he was assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He landed in Da Nang and spent ...

The Marines came ashore at Da Nang, on the central coast of Vietnam, on March 8, 1965. By the next year, the beachfront and the air base alongside had become a vast, ugly sprawl of tents, trucks, half ...

Fifty years ago this week, the U.S. began its Rolling Thunder bombing campaign in what was then North Vietnam. It was followed by the landing of the first major combat units in South Vietnam on March ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The arrival at Da Nang was uneventful. One of the planes was slightly damaged by ...