The helicopter hadn't touched down before bullets were tearing through the air, a day local Vietnam veteran Sgt. Donnie Kimball of the 26th Marines will never forget. A 19-year-old rifleman, this was ...

U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine ...

Despite North Korea’s obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in ...

They met on a hill in a far corner of Vietnam. Especially on Veterans Day, David “Randy” Norton of Charlotte and Larry McCartney of Black Mountain remember that time in early 1968 at Khe Sanh, the ...

In January 1968, North Vietnamese forces encircled the isolated base at Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, opening with a ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

EXCLUSIVE: John Wells has come attached to direct the Vietnam War drama Khe Sanh. The script is being witten by Jason Horwitch, whose credits include the YouTube Red series Impulse, Luke Cage and ...

WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Retired Navy chaplain Ray W. Stubbe leaned over his diary and ran his finger to the entry for Feb. 23, 1968, the 34th day of the Vietnam War’s siege of Khe Sanh and the day the ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most publicized skirmishes of the Vietnam War, the battle of Khe Sanh. The battle started Jan. 21, 1968, when the North Vietnamese and ...

TIME Correspondent Don Sider spent several days at Khe Sanh last week ducking incoming shells and observing the unique quality of life in the besieged Marine base. His report: A chill, grey mist hangs ...