Now there was no enemy to be seen ... The relief columns advanced down National Route 9 to ward Khe Sanh almost without opposition; they were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the ...

More than 50 years after the Vietnam War gripped the world's attention, the battlefields where countless lives were lost have become poignant pilgrimage sites for veterans and tourists alike.

Every plane that lands at Khe Sanh now expects to do so under fire, and more and more equipment is being parachuted in. Khe Sanh’s weather this time of year may also aid the Communists.

Now, Khe Sanh boasts a small museum and some of the original fortifications, along with tanks, helicopters and other equipment left by US forces after their withdrawal. Hue itself was the scene of ...

"Khe Sanh smelled of death," Crenshaw said recently ... He mentioned that Marines worried that the tattered flag, now in the Marine Corps Museum, might not last through the siege.

Shots taken in Khe Sanh during my posting there Another day ... He replied, "You think we would have noticed that before now, wouldn't you?" After Vietnam, Ronald E. Smith attended college on ...

“I can understand a bit better now how the war took place ... which typically also includes a stop at the former Khe Sanh combat base, the site of a fierce battle in 1968 in which both sides ...

Vietnam veteran shares stories of Marines’ battle at Khe Sanh Robert Maras has lived a life ... is one he hasn’t been able to tell until now. “I never talked about it,” he said, “because ...

In 1968, my fellow Marines and I were targets for about 1,000 cannons a day in Con Thien and Khe Sanh. I just completed ... Only then did I discover that Vietnam is now sending me solar panels ...