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, ...
Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...
Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...
The Battle of Khe Sanh began 50 years ago this week when roughly 20,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounded an isolated combat base held by roughly 5,500 Marines. The marines could not be reinforced or ...
Early in 1968, the nation's military brass and political leaders faced a grim question: Will Khe Sanh become America's Dien Bien Phu? France had lost its grip on Indochina in 1954 after suffering a ...
SAN DIEGO — When the battle was over, Marines who fought in Vietnam labeled Hill 881 South “a deadly killing zone” in the long siege of Khe Sanh. Twenty-seven Marines were killed and 50 wounded — in ...
WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War’s siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...
The young Marine lieutenant is dead, and his desperate men grimace as they drag him by the wrists from the jungle, where they have just been ambushed near the Marine outpost of Khe Sanh. One of them ...
Magalia resident Charles Allen hadn’t met another Vietnam veteran who served at Khe Sanh until Saturday when he went to a lunch that marked the 38th anniversary of the day the fighting began. At the ...
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