The Marine losses around the DMZ accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total American dead of 274 in the ground war, a figure exactly matching the previous U.S. weekly record dead in Viet Nam.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MAP LISTING; PART I-PRE-TET 1968; CHAPTER 1-A Puzzling War; III MAF January 1968; MACV and Command Arrangements; South Vietnam and I Corps; The Enemy; Focus on ...

Schiltz went to Camp Evans, 25 miles south of the DMZ. He spent a month on Hill 494 in the A Shau Valley. He also went up to Quang Tri. Right after Christmas 1967, the Marines went to the ...

The Marines not only had an estimated two companies of North Vietnamese to cope with but also the civilians living in the DMZ. Part of Hickory’s mission is to remove the estimated 11,000 ...

Cpl. Daniel Heller was awarded the Navy Cross 55 years after fighting through an ambush to save his Marines during the Vietnam War.

Jim Hall is a lifelong Marine who was ordered to Vietnam in the middle of the Tet Offensive in 1968.

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 ...

Marines also had a higher ratio of wounded in Vietnam with 51,392 wounded compared to the Army wounded of 96,802.

Of all the military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines had the most fearsome reputation. This coming April will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion ...