The Battle of Khe Sanh began 50 years ago this week when roughly 20,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounded an isolated combat base held by roughly 5,500 Marines. The marines could not be ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War...The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh ...

January 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Khe Sanh. The battle started with around 20,000 men from the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) fighting against some 6,000 US Marines ...

But a major battle did occur at Khe Sanh—one that prevented the bloody hand-to-hand battle on the ground that many military men had anticipated. It was a battle of the air might of the U.S ...

The troops fighting at Khe Sanh were young, many in their late teens. Horchler, who had “celebrated” his 21st birthday a month before the battle started, was one of the “older guys.” ...

Donnie Kimball of the 26th Marines will never forget. A 19-year-old rifleman, this was Kimball's welcome into the Battle of Khe Sanh, 77 days of a bloody siege in Vietnam. Kimball said it was by ...

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans will gather to ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — When the battle was over, Marines who fought in Vietnam labeled Hill 881 South “a deadly killing zone” in the long siege of Khe Sanh. Twenty-seven Marines were killed and 50 ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War -- the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans are gathering to ...

First Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, 44th Artillery, 108th Artillery Group, 1st Field Force, U.S. Army Attached to the 3rd Marine Division Khe Sanh Combat ... the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam ...