Pfc. Anthony John Pepper, a Marine from Chesterfield County, was 20 years old in April 1968 when he was killed in the Battle of Khe Sanh. In a letter that reached his family days before he died, ...

In early April of 1968, President Lyndon Johnson ordered an operation that demanded the cooperation of the Marines, the Air ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MAP LISTING; PART I-PRE-TET 1968; CHAPTER 1-A Puzzling War; III MAF January 1968; MACV and Command Arrangements; South Vietnam and I Corps; The Enemy; Focus on ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Dodge City native Jesse Ramos answered the call to service in 1968 by joining the Marines. “I really did like the Marine Corps uniforms, but I think maybe once I got to ‘Nam, I ...

South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968: A marine of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division gunner sits atop his mud-crusted track vehicle. The marines are part of ...

Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh was one of the Vietnam War’s most harrowing and hard-fought clashes. Centered on the Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwestern Quảng Trị Province, U.S. Marines came under relentless ...

Con Thien, South Vietnam, Aug. 15, 1968: Pvt. 1st Class Richard M. Topeka of B Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division — a machine gunner at Con Thien Marine base — walks ...

A bridge in Hellam Township, York County, will be renamed to honor Marine PFC, Private First Class, Roger Fraker, a ...