In 1967, Vietnam, Capt. Bill Dabney chose the Marine unit closest to the enemy—an instinct that soon put him and his men at ...
Conroe, TX (FOX 44) — Jimmie Edwards, a proud U.S. Marine and Vietnam War Veteran, embodies the true meaning of sacrifice. Wounded in combat, he paid a heavy price in service to his country but never ...
Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in Vietnam affected veterans in the Alamo City and South Texas.
BISHOPVILLE — He's fought for many things across his 87 years of life. Sometimes, the fight was for life itself. "Lieutenant James Capers and his Force Reconnaissance Marines were ambushed by a ...
A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought through severe injuries while under attack on a mission in the jungles of ...
It took months of risk and danger in the Vietnam War before U.S. Marine Cpl. Dennis Fisher got used to reaching for his camera instead of his firearm.
SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...
We were living at Geiger Trailer Park, which were these little bitty trailers that I think Eleanor Roosevelt had arranged for World War II vets to live in,” she said, “And when we found out that we ...
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 ...
BROCKTON — Lorraine Burbank was 10 in the summer of 1967. One day a priest and two Marines showed up at the gate. It meant her older brother was dead. Marine Cpl. Wladyslaw "Scotty" Staniszewski was ...
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