Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...

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 ...

From his pilot perch in the busy cockpit of a workhorse CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, Marine 1st Lt. Harold G. “Hal” Walker witnessed the horrors and heroics of the Vietnam War. “I was an observer, ...

Dr. Camacho served as a sergeant with the 9th Marines in Vietnam (1969-1969) and was wounded in action. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston College in 1986 and his MSIS from Northeastern ...

In this solemn tribute, we remember the fourteen Marines and one Navy Corpsman who lost their lives on November 18, 1970, when their CH-46D Sea Knight helicopter from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron ...

For most of his life Lee Roy Herron thought it was his destiny to fight for our country, and he wanted to be ready. When he left for Vietnam in late 1968, he was mentally and physically prepared for ...