That sound sends chills down the spine of Navy medics. It means a Marine has been wounded – or worse. Corpsmen spring into action with little regard for their own safety to help fallen comrades, often ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: By the time the survivors of the last NVA units slipped out of the city on March 3, Bowden estimates that ten thousand had died in the struggle for Hue—including roughly ...

The Marine Corps staff sergeant who mounted an assault to take a crucial tower in the bloody 1968 Battle of Hue in Vietnam died Oct. 1 in Wasilla, Alaska. He was 75. Robert L. Thoms — nicknamed “Cajun ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: To an American public already leery about the escalating costs and moral compromises of the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hue established that “winning” in Vietnam would ...

During the 1980s, the United States was still struggling to come to grips with its involvement in the Vietnam War and as part of that effort, Hollywood churned out a number of movies with the conflict ...

For Mark Bowden, author of Hué 1968, the pivotal battle of the War in Vietnam did not follow the script most Americans were used to scanning in their newspapers or visualizing on the evening news. The ...

For Mark Bowden, author of Hué 1968, the pivotal battle of the War in Vietnam did not follow the script most Americans were used to scanning in their newspapers or visualizing on the evening news. The ...

With backing from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, paperwork to upgrade the Navy Cross awarded to then-Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Canley to the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Hue City in ...

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"Alpha Six is down," was the word passed from Marine to Marine. "Alpha Seven is up." In Marine-speak, that meant that Capt. Gordon Batcheller was hit and out of action. Gunnery Sgt. John Canley was ...