One Kansas native served in Vietnam, but it was only a fraction of his over 20-year career in the Marine Corps.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, ...

PFC Dan Bullock became the youngest American service member killed in the Vietnam War after forging his birth certificate to enlist in the Marine Corps at only 14-years-old.

CLEVES, Ohio (ENQUIRER) - Daniel Leroy “Duke” Heller spent 13 months and eight days in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. On Wednesday – 55 years, six months and 15 days after what he ...

BISHOPVILLE — He's fought for many things across his 87 years of life. Sometimes, the fight was for life itself. "Lieutenant James Capers and his Force Reconnaissance Marines were ambushed by a ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

Cypress resident Roosevelt Barden has seen his share of suffering -- and not only in his line of work as a nurse. Barden saw suffering and death firsthand as a Marine on the front lines in Vietnam.

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 ...

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 ...

The full letter, which is widely available these days, ran to about 2,000 words worth of evidence that “something very black indeed” had happened. Further publicity came in the form of an ...