Ohio native Michael Ryan was 18 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1963, and he was assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He landed in Da Nang and spent ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (WLS) -- Sunday marks 50 years since United States combat troops arrived in Vietnam when two battalions made up of hundreds of Marines landed in Da Nang on March 8, 1965. They ...

Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his ...

Blackburn, a retired Navy vice admiral who briefly commanded the 7th Fleet during the Vietnam War, died Wednesday of cancer in Hilton Head, S.C. He was 83. His forces mounted a major bombing attack ...

During the Vietnam War, Da Nang was a major base for both the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces. The first American combat troops landed there in 1965, and it became a hub for operations and supply.

March 8, 1965: The U.S. Marines storm Da Nang, marking the first major ground troop deployment of the Vietnam War. This was the beginning of America’s longest war. Trump deploys National Guard to ...