Len Erickson, a Vietnam War Marine Corps veteran from northern Minnesota, served with the First Battalion, Seventh Marines ...

South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968: An unidentified Marine looks around as he and other members of G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment inspect a village. The company swept ...

Da Nang, 1968. Wrong time and place to run around in your baggies shouting, “Surf’s up!” But Vietnam had a knack for dark paradoxes. The China Beach Surf Club was one of them. The surf club, located ...

South of Da Nang, South Vietnam, Aug. 15, 1968: U.S. Marine engineers hammer fence poles and span barbed wire in the middle of a field, building a barrier, 15 miles south of Da Nang. Looking for Stars ...

For perspective, I was a career Navy enlisted man whose service included serving as an Independent Duty Hospital Corpsman on two destroyers deployed from Yokosuka, Japan to the Gulf of Tonkin from ...