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Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet.  |
Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive.  |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta.  |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known."  |
Vietnam Joe Zentner |
Above and Beyond the Call From Roger Donlon in 1964 to Roy Benavidez in 1981, the Medal of Honor was awarded to 239 Americans who served in Vietnam.  |
Vietnam August 2006 Colonel Dick Camp |
3rd Battalion, 26th Marines Fight With the NVA 324B Division in September 1967 During the Vietnam War As the battalion got the word that it would be relieved, an enemy voice was heard over the battalion radio: "Goodbye, 3/26!"  |
Vietnam Tom Evans |
'Sixtys Up!' Mortarmen do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment--carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go.  |
World War II Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable.  |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial.  |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Major John F. Mullins |
A Bad Day at Bu Dop In March 1967 two Special Forces soldiers sacrificed their lives in an obscure battle that could have changed the course of the war in Vietnam.  |
Vietnam Alfred Rascon |
Alfred Rascon: A Case of Forgotten Valor In February 2000, 33 years after medic Alfred Rascon saved two lives in action in War Zone D, he finally received the Medal of Honor.  |
Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles.  |
Vietnam John W. Flores |
Marine's Sacrifice in the Battle of Hue With the 1996 commissioning of the guided-missile destroyer USS Alfredo Gonzalez, a Marine Medal of Honor recipient's legacy lives on.  |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours.  |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet.  |
World War II October 2006 Stanley C. Jersey |
Ordinary Marines: Guadalcanal's Lonely Patrol During World War II An unsung unit patched together from a depleted battalion of 2nd Division leathernecks cleared the way for the legendary Carlson's Raiders on Guadalcanal.  |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.  |
Vietnam Brent Swager |
Rescue at LZ Albany Chaos prevailed over the battle zone, but the helicopter crews never wavered. They had to save the troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who were dying in the tall grass.  |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital.  |
Vietnam John Mann |
Personality: Captain Lee Morrow Captain Lee Morrow was brave but not foolhardy. He got results in combat, and no one was cooler under fire.  |
Vietnam Robert Fromme |
Death of a Staff Sergeant Every name on the Wall represents a story -- sometimes survivors just take years to tell it. So it was for Staff Sgt. Charles M. Andujar's story.  |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords.  |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge.  |
Vietnam April 30, 2004 Ray Pezzoli, Jr. |
Vanguards in the Rung Sat Special Zone Operation Lexington III took the war deep into the Rung Sat, whose mangrove swamps and perilous creeks helped make it one of the Viet Cong's safest sanctuaries.  |
Vietnam Peter Brush |
What Really Happened at Cam Ne? Although described as one of the top works of 20th-century journalism, the CBS report presented only one side of the story.  |
Outside November 2009 Brian Mockenhaupt |
Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it.  |
World War II April 2007 Harold R. Sargent |
Harold Sargent Recalls His Days of Combat on Cebu Island During World War II One young private emerged from a savage battle on this Philippine island with the tale of a lifetime -- and more.  |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 James Donovan |
Combined Action Program: Marines' Alternative to Search and Destroy The U.S. Marine Corps CAP just might have been a viable alternative to MACV's 'big battalions' strategy in Vietnam.  |
Vietnam Paddy Griffith |
Re-evaluating the Role of the 'Dustoff' While it improved the survival rate and confidence level of troops in Vietnam, medevac often distorted the tactical shape of battles.  |
World War II March 2, 2005 Oscar Friedensohn |
GI's Bloody Rhine River Crossing A combat engineer will never forget the day he led an assault boat across the Rhine River and into the teeth of the German defenses at St. Goarshausen.  |
Civil War Times Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta.  |
Vietnam Eddie Morin |
Isaac "Ike" Camacho: First to Escape Captured during a November 1963 attack by VC on the CIDG camp at Hiep Hoa, Isaac Camacho managed to escape from Cambodia after 20 months of captivity.  |
AskMen.com April 23, 2013 |
Leader's Code The following is an excerpt from Marine Corps veteran Donovan Campbell's The Leader's Code, a book about the qualities that make and define an effective leader.  |
World War II November 2006 David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.  |
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Radios for Every Infantryman: Marine Company Tests Experimental Communications Gear A marine rifle company recently experienced something that few of its peers have - operating in a combat scenario with a radio in the hands of every member of the unit.  |
Vietnam Nicoud & Darragh |
Foreign Legion Specialized Units in Indochina Although best known as one of the finest light infantry forces in the world, the French Foreign Legion had many specialized units in Indochina.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006 |
The role of Armor in Urban Combat Mutually supporting combined arms (armor-infantry) tactical element can achieve success while keeping casualties to a minimum... Improving visibility when "buttoned up" in tanks... Enhancing tank survivability in urban combat... Tank firepower adapted for urban warfare... etc.  |
National Defense May 2006 Grace Jean |
Army Strives for Training That Resembles Combat Combat rehearsals that replicate conditions in Iraq provide valuable training for troops who have yet to experience the real war.  |
National Defense July 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Marines Seek Better Training, Gear for Urban Combat The U.S. Marine Corps is shifting its emphasis to preparing Marines to fight in urban areas, in addition to deserts, mountains and jungles.  |
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson |
New Training Facilities Force Marines To Experience the Fog of War Maneuvering through mock villages is not a new concept, but the Marine Corps believes this system creates the most realistic setting those deploying overseas can experience in the United States.  |