North Korea Hijacs U.S. Naval Vessel 1968
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Free at last 1981
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A black and white photo of people, mostly men in suits, walking while holding photos of Martin Luther King Jr.

700 hail King in Osan march

More than 700 American military men of all races and ranks marched in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Sunday, climaxing a weekend tribute here to the slain civil rights leader.

Agnew and Sato

Agnew in Tokyo for Okinawa reversion

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew arrived here Friday evening in a sleek presidential jet as President Nixon's envoy to Monday's Okinawa reversion ceremony.

Tsutome Sekine and some of the expensive items, including a large Speed Graphic-type camera, in storage at the Tokyo Lost and Found office in December, 1975.

At Tokyo Lost and Found, wallets to ashes lie unclaimed

At times, the 120,000 umbrellas in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's vast Lost and Found Center seem to reflect the personalities of their owners.

Pfc. Orville Painter, 22, of Modesto, Calif., leans out of his bunker at Ka Tum, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, to hang his Christmas stocking.

Christmas in Saigon: Troops found ways to stay cheerful in Vietnam

Another holiday season is upon us and with it, plenty of reasons to hug our loved ones.

Pfc. Ron Fuller of Indianapolis, Ind., his head bandaged after being hit by shrapnel and his AR-15 at the ready, watches for the enemy from atop an armored personnel carrier.

Vietnam battle

Pfc. Ron Fuller of Indianapolis, Ind., his head bandaged after being hit by shrapnel and his AR-15 at the ready, watches for the enemy from atop an armored personnel carrier.

Pfc. A.B. Grantham, foreground, and other wounded Marines receive medical attention as they are evacuated on a tank during the fierce fighting of the Tet offensive. Grantham, an 18-year-old from Mobile, Ala., was unconscious and struggling to breathe after being shot in the chest.

VIDEO| Vietnam veteran A.B. Grantham talks about the Battle of Hue

During the Battle of Hue in February, 1968, 18-year-old U.S. Marine Pfc. A.B. Grantham of Mobile, Ala., was shot in the chest by a North Vietnamese soldier.

Commander Richard M. Bellinger of aircraft carrier Oriskany's Fighter Squadron 162 relates how he destroyed a North Vietnamese MiG-21 on Oct. 9, 1966.

Rolling Thunder escalated US involvement in Vietnam, pulled ground troops into combat

In 1964, Keith Connolly was a young Air Force pilot and was among the first Americans to fly sorties in the F-100 Super Sabre fighter bomber targeting the North Vietnamese communist insurgency.