The largest Air Mobile assault operation of the Vietnam War, codenamed Apache Snow, began at Firebase Blaze on May 10, 1969. The 3rd Battalion/187th Infantry Regiment (nicknamed the Rakkasans ...

While the world moved on, one NVA soldier and his son remained deep in the jungle—believing the Vietnam War was still being fought. For 40 years, they hid from a war that had already ended.

In April 1970, our brigade commander ordered each of his three line infantry battalions to deploy squad-sized ambushes along the border with Cambodia (which looked like an angel's wing on the map ...