On Hill 52, Thon's battlefield memories flooded back ... of this country was pretty severe," said Thon. Being back in Vietnam helped Thon write an end to a searing chapter in his life.

Hestle’s sister, Marjorie Hill-Taylor, 88, of Eureka, who has spent nearly 52 years wondering what happened ... search-and-destroy mission over North Vietnam. The F-105 “Thud” flew more ...

who immediately began making calls to cut through the red tape surrounding that hill near Dak To in the Southern Highlands of Vietnam, not far from the Cambodian border. "We had to get clearance ...

‘Fear and agony’ The battle for Hill 937 was kind of a high-water mark of U.S. operations in Vietnam. At the time, there were more than 500,000 U.S. troops on the ground, and this was a rare ...

Not a brush with Vietnamese police. Mannion, 54, was on a trail to Hill 861 northwest of Khe Sanh, Vietnam. For four months in 1967 and 1968 Mannion, then a Marine corporal, had lived on that hill ...

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 ...