EDITOR’S NOTE: The following historical recollection was contributed by Leon Cederlind of Phillips, who was a U.S. Marines helicopter pilot and first lieutenant from 1964 to 1970. He served during the ...

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

They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...

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 ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 10, 1968: Marines lay down barbed wire on the perimeter of Khe Sanh base. North Vietnamese troops had been harassing the base in previous months with rockets, artillery ...

As allied patrols scoured the scorched and battered moonscape around the liberated Marine garrison of Khe Sanh last week, they found North Vietnamese trenches and bunkers, tons of supplies and ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, March 3, 1968: Two Marines watch as smoke from a burning supply pit that received a direct hit by North Vietnamese artillery rises into the sky. Looking for Stars and Stripes’ ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books.

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...