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Vietnam War

A veteran with a mustache and blue shirt stands in front of a brown background.

‘Going in their honor’: Vietnam veterans to visit key battle sites for first time since war’s end

Veterans returning to Vietnam to tour battle sites in Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.

Comparing the beards grown during their ordeal are Capt. Walter Wesley, left, Capt. Walter Brown, center, and Capt. William Carpenter.

Chotto Matte

CADET WILLIAM S. CARPENTER READ THOSE words blazoned on the gymnasium wall at West Point when he gained football fame as Army's "lonesome end" in 1958 and reaped All-America honors as team captain in 1959.

Col. Oscar Peatross, left, commander of the 7th Marine Regiment and head of Task Force Delta, is briefed by Lt. Col. Leon Utter,commander of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine regiment, during Operation Utah.

Three operations kill 2,000 VC

Allied forces in the Republic of Vietnam Monday wound up two major operations and were expecting to end another. Enemy deaths were expected to total more than 2,000.

Koho tribesmen pause

Special Forces sergeant has nerve-wracking job

Instead of moving forward to fire on the fleeing Viet Cong, the excited bazookaman rammed a shell in the tube, aimed at the ridge in front, and squeezed.

Planes and helicopters land and take off during Operation Masher at Bong Son, Vietnam.

US planes hit in south, destroy 530 buildings

Air Force, Navy and Marine planes blasted Viet Cong positions in the republic Wednesday - flying 450 combat missions.

Comedian Martha Raye visits with Sgt. Richard Bartlett at the Clark Air Base hospital

Badly wounded, he plays dead as Reds kick him

"The Viet Cong used my chest for a gun rest. Each time he fired he took hunks of meat out of my arm. ..."

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

Swift crews ply Gulf with smiles — and bullets

“We have to be ready to fire, but we also have to have a smile on our face.”