Vietnam War

The other day, I was reading the news headlines, and I saw a blurb about how Jane Fonda had apologized for the infamous picture of her sitting on a North …

Clarence Sasser told the story of “the longest day of [his] life,” beginning with a sortie to provide backup to another company pinned down by Viet Cong fire.  Instead of …

Pfc. Clarence Sasser was an Army medic in Vietnam.  He was awarded the Medal of Honor for keeping alive most of a company of soldiers for nearly 24 hours, after …

Medal of Honor recipient Melvin Morris was one of the first Green Berets in the Army.  In 1969 he risked his life to save a fellow sergeant who had been …

This is the tragic ending to the story of one of the greatest heroes of the Vietnam War, the only tank driver awarded the Medal of Honor.  Read here about …

Dwight Johnson is the most tragic of all the stories of valor in this series.  He was a courageous fighter, nearly singlehandedly driving off an entire battalion of North Vietnamese …

22 February: This Day in Military History

James Anderson, Jr. was born in Compton, California in 1947, in January.  While serving in Vietnam in February 1967, when he was barely twenty years old, U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. …

Sergeant Rodney M. Davis served three years as an elite Marine Security Guard at the U.S. Embassy in London, before volunteering for duty in Vietnam in August of 1967.  Barely …

Charles Rogers was a career Lieutenant Colonel commanding a forward fire support base (FSB) on the Cambodian border in the fall of 1968.  When his FSB was overrun in a …