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Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta. |
Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet. |
Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive. |
Vietnam Robert Fromme |
Death of a Staff Sergeant Every name on the Wall represents a story -- sometimes survivors just take years to tell it. So it was for Staff Sgt. Charles M. Andujar's story. |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial. |
Vietnam August 2006 Colonel Dick Camp |
3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War As the battalion got the word that it would be relieved, an enemy voice was heard over the battalion radio: "Goodbye, 3/26!" |
Vietnam Tom Evans |
'Sixtys Up!' Mortarmen do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment--carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go. |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours. |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James F. Humphries |
In Defense of a Hamlet In May 1967, a platoon of the 31st Infantry fought off a VC attack in force against a hamlet loyal to the Saigon government. |
Vietnam Brent Swager |
Rescue at LZ Albany Chaos prevailed over the battle zone, but the helicopter crews never wavered. They had to save the troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who were dying in the tall grass. |
Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles. |
Vietnam John W. Flores |
Marine's Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue With the 1996 commissioning of the guided-missile destroyer USS Alfredo Gonzalez, a Marine Medal of Honor recipient's legacy lives on. |
Vietnam February 2007 James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968. |
World War II Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable. |
Vietnam John Mann |
Personality: Captain Lee Morrow Captain Lee Morrow was brave but not foolhardy. He got results in combat, and no one was cooler under fire. |
Vietnam April 30, 2004 Ray Pezzoli, Jr. |
Vanguards in the Rung Sat Special Zone Operation Lexington III took the war deep into the Rung Sat, whose mangrove swamps and perilous creeks helped make it one of the Viet Cong's safest sanctuaries. |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital. |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge. |
Vietnam Paddy Griffith |
Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles. |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known." |
Vietnam John M. Carland |
Interview with NVA General Tran Van Tra The field commander of military operations in the South, Tran Van Tra was North Vietnam's counterpart to General William Westmoreland. |
World War II March 2, 2005 Oscar Friedensohn |
GI's Bloody Rhine River Crossing A combat engineer will never forget the day he led an assault boat across the Rhine River and into the teeth of the German defenses at St. Goarshausen. |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords. |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge. |
World War II August 25, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Ambitious Airborne Assault: Operation Market Garden It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives. |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet. |
Vietnam October 2006 |
CORDS: Winning Hearts and Minds in Vietnam At the heart of civil operations and revolutionary development support was the U.S. province senior adviser. CORDS pulled together all the various U.S. military and civilian agencies involved in the 1967 pacification effort |
Vietnam William L. Adams |
Conversation With the NVA Interviews with a top North Vietnam Army general and two former soldiers provide important insights into the other side's view of the Vietnam war. |
America's Civil War James B. Ronan II |
Union Regulars Brigade Desperate Stand at Chickamauga Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from annihilation. |
Vietnam |
Letters From Readers - December 2007 - Vietnam More about Donald Koelper... That one-year tour of duty... Operation Dewey Canyon... etc. |
AskMen.com April 23, 2013 |
Leader's Code The following is an excerpt from Marine Corps veteran Donovan Campbell's The Leader's Code, a book about the qualities that make and define an effective leader. |
National Defense February 2004 Harold Kennedy |
From Buck Private to Chief of SOCOM Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown -- who became head of the U.S. Special Operations Command in September -- joined the Army as a private in 1967. |
Civil War Times John F. McCormack, Jr. |
Never Were Men So Brave Their casualties were enormous but their courage and capacity for fun were legendary. General Lee himself gave highest praise to these Yankees of the Irish Brigade. |
Vietnam Ed McCaul |
Colonel Thomas Moe: Prisoner in North Vietnam Brought down by a faulty fuze on his wingman's bomb, Tom Moe survived more than five years as a POW in North Vietnam. |