In February 1968, American forces in Vietnam were still reeling from the sudden onslaught of the Tet Offensive. The January ...

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 ...

The vicious fighting that took place in and around Khe Sanh for more than a year before the infamous January–April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army is a largely untold story of the Vietnam War.

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 ...

Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, January 1968: A Marine passes the time playing his guitar surrounded by sandbags in a dugout at Khe Sanh Combat Base, just days after the North Vietnamese launched a massive ...

Journalist Jones (Honor in the Dust) examines one of the most iconic and controversial engagements of the Vietnam War, the 77-day (February%E2%80%93April 1968) siege ...

The gem of American military superiority in Vietnam was the strategic Marine Corps base a Khe Sanh. Located a few miles from the borders of North Vietnam and Laos, Khe Sanh was heavily fortified in ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the ensuing hours, Ashley would lead five assaults against NVA tanks and heavy infantry. Time after time, Ashley led by example and destroyed numerous enemy ...