“Force Recon Diary, 1969,” by former U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman Bruce Norton, details the missions carried out by 3rd Force Recon in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam in 1969.

Retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War. (Courtesy of Jim Capers) A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a ...

Many veterans who saw action in the Vietnam War have described military operations conducted in the A Shau Valley as hell on Earth. Dark Docs. The Last Major Marine Battle of the Vietnam War.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 led his nine-member team to safety despite being ...

An Iowa native and former U.S. Marine is marking the end of the Vietnam War 50 years ago today, ... Some 115,000 Iowans served in the Vietnam War and 868 of them died there. (By Lucia Cheng, ...

The brutal images Americans saw on their televisions every night fuelled such discontent. Unlike the feel-good newsreels broadcast in the second world war, coverage of Vietnam was not sanitised.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ronald W. Forrester, 25, of Odessa, Texas, was piloting an A-6A Intruder when his plane vanished over Vietnam in 1972.

The excellent F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, developed by McDonnell Douglas, was one of the main fighters the U.S. used in Vietnam.The first F-4 was built in 1958, and by 1979, McDonnell Douglas had ...

A Vietnam War veteran was so moved by Donald Trump’s reaction to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., that he gave his Purple Heart to the former president on Friday.. The former Marine ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, two years after then-President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam’s President Nguyen Van Thieu reached a peace agreement in January 1973.

A group of veterans and lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to award an 87-year-old Marine Corps "legend" and war hero the Medal of Honor after he was snubbed by former President Joe Biden.