SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Donald 'Doc' Ballard (Ret.) joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss his service to the country after he saved his fellow Marines decades ago during a grenade attack.

The 12th Littoral Combat Team will carry on the traditions of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, which earned the title “China ...

Escalation President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam. In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang.

The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965. Voting ends in ...

Nearly 400 people — most of whom were Vietnam veterans — gathered on the 50th anniversary of the end of U.S. involvement in ...

Lorraine Burbank was 10 in 1967 when a priest and two Marines showed up at her gate. Saturday, Burbank traveled back to Brockton to honor her brother.

Military Times' dedicated site to the Vietnam Commemoration, Rolling Thunder the POW/MIA mission and telling the stories of Vietnam veterans. “If you were a reconnaissance Marine and you served ...

With winter’s last little bite in the air, veteran soldiers, sailors, airman, and Marines from the Vietnam War and their ...