When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...

In April 1967, Marine 2nd Lt. James Capers Jr. ignored his numerous bullet and shrapnel wounds to lead his nine-man team from 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company against an enemy ambush in South Vietnam.

Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...

Jerry Haywood of Coshocton served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1969. Haywood is still chaplain of Coshocton County Vietnam Veterans and was president of ...

Clinton Larry Smith, a decorated Vietnam veteran and retired Marine Corps sergeant from Andalusia, passed away at 78, leaving ...

In the fall of 1967, a land mine in Vietnam killed a Fort Mill teen, husband and expectant father on his first patrol as a Marine. A month later, another mine killed a Rock Hill soldier with 10 ...

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