by jack | Sep 6, 2023 | Military, Vietnam War
JUNE 12, 1968 | NEAR AP GO CONG, BÌNH DƯƠNG PROVINCE, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM A four-man long-range reconnaissance team saw through its night-vision scope that it was completely surrounded by hostile forces on a mission northeast of Saigon. Army attack helicopter pilot...
by Doyle | Jun 29, 2023 | Vietnam War
April 11, 1966 near near Cam My, Vietnam Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment finds itself fighting for survival in the rubber plantations of Cam My village. Ambushed by the Vietcong, 80 percent of the company will became casualties. The Joint Rescue...
by Doyle | May 28, 2023 | Medal of Honor, USMC, Vietnam War
Ordered to the Republic of Vietnam in August 1967, Sergeant Rodney M. Davis was assigned duty as a Platoon Guide with Company B, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, First Marine Division. His unit was operating in the challenging terrain of the Quảng Nam Province,...
by Doyle | Apr 10, 2023 | Vietnam War
One of the first U.S. Army soldiers to qualify as a Green Beret, Melvin Morris did not fit the stereotype of a Special Forces fighter. “I was 5 foot 4 inches, 117 pounds,” Morris told an interviewer. “But I was a strong little fella.” Morris would soon prove just how...
by Doyle | Apr 7, 2023 | Vietnam War
Dr. Grady Harp studied music and medicine at Occidental College and the University of Southern California School of Medicine (now Keck). Upon completing his internship at Los Angeles County Hospital he was transplanted into the US Marine Corps as a Battalion Surgeon...
by Doyle | Mar 31, 2023 | USMC, Vietnam War
“I’m going to come back with the Medal of Honor,” Larry Peters told his mother when he left for Vietnam, “or I’m not coming back.” It would be his second tour. Marine Sgt. Peters had already served a thirteen-month tour of duty when, because of his love for and desire...
