In January 1968, North Vietnamese forces encircled the isolated base at Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, opening with a massive artillery and mortar bombardment that detonated ammunition stores and ...

Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...

The vicious fighting that took place in and around Khe Sanh for more than a year before the infamous January–April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army is a largely untold story of the Vietnam War.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army 1st Lt. Paul R. Longgrear, the Mobile Strike Force company commander at Lang Vei, is helped to a Marine aid station at Khe ...

THE U.S. last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam’s northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war’s biggest and bitterest siege. The news ...

They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...

Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, January 1968: A Marine passes the time playing his guitar surrounded by sandbags in a dugout at Khe Sanh Combat Base, just days after the North Vietnamese launched a massive ...

Few Americans had it rougher in the Vietnam War than the 6,000 or so Marines who were caught at Khe Sanh during the infamous January–April 1968 siege by the North Vietnamese Army. Corbett was one of ...

The gem of American military superiority in Vietnam was the strategic Marine Corps base a Khe Sanh. Located a few miles from the borders of North Vietnam and Laos, Khe Sanh was heavily fortified in ...