A bridge has been dedicated to 1st Lt. Lee F. Clickner, among the 136 Bucks County military members killed while serving in ...
A trip with the 11th Armored Cavalry in 1969 brings back images of the war from that year that have never been seen before. In his strong new book, James Stanish takes readers through the heart of the ...
John Thynne was a member of RAAF 9 Squadron which operated the Bell UH-1 Huey in Vietnam. He joined the RAAF in 1969 and was ...
With the passage of time, history has a tendency to soften its edges. Not so in Images from Vietnam 1969, the powerful new book by U.S. Army veteran James M. Stanish. This unforgettable photo memoir ...
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 ...
Apr. 15—MITCHELL — For more than half a century, Vietnam veteran Jim Anderson held onto a memory — a brief wartime encounter, a father's untold story, and a promise to one day find a book that hadn't ...
CEDAR SPRINGS, Mich. — William Kyle Gowen spent his 21st birthday landing in Vietnam. The year was 1968, and he was a Marine Corps medic. "Stayed there 10 and a half months," said Gowen. "Got three ...
My boots first stepped down on Vietnam’s soil in midsummer 1969, in between the Apollo moon landing and the Woodstock music festival. I had just wrapped up my teenage years and thought I was an adult, ...
COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...
There is a Navy ship named for Schenectady. The USS Schenectady was named at the suggestion of a Schenectady schoolgirl who wrote a letter to the secretary of the Navy, asking for the possibility of ...
In 1969, a three-day music festival took place in a muddy field outside Woodstock, NY. The event was a chaotic mess, with way more people showing up than expected, and not enough services for them.