Fire Base Was Going To Be Over Run By NVA, He Met Them With a Bayonet & an Assault Rifle
When asked to conjure in one’s imagination the image of a fearless soldier, fighting with fervent ferocity in hand-to-hand combat and battling relentlessly against wave…
How One Navy SEAL was Awarded the MoH for Saving Another MoH Recipient
When a draft notice came to Thomas Rolland Norris, he hoped to become a Navy pilot. But when visual acuity and depth perception issues became…
We Were Soldiers: 22 trips in & out of LZ X-Ray, Choppers Got Shot up so Bad he Had to Use 3 Different Ones
Most fans of war films have probably seen the movie We Were Soldiers, but did you know that hidden in that movie is a Medal…
WW2 “Sweetheart Grips” Surprisingly Few People Know About Them
The personalization of equipment goes back for centuries. The Greeks often had to supply their own armor so they usually added ridged elements that simulated…
Special Forces Jerry “Mad Dog” Shriver Packed as Many as Six Revolvers, Sawn off Shotgun & His Regular Machine Gun
“To Liberate the Oppressed” – US Special Forces Motto For America, the Vietnam War was unlike any other war it had fought before. It was a…
Rick Rescorla: The Vietnam Veteran Who Saved 2,700 Lives on 9/11
The Battle of la Drang Valley was the first major engagement of the Vietnam War. Some 36 years later, the first major battle of the…
Nightmare in Nam – On Halloween Night 1968 Lt. Col Rogers Fought to Save Fire Base Rita
Ghouls and goblins run through the streets of America every Halloween. On October 31, 1968, they ran through the jungles of Vietnam. Many of the…
The Magnificent One: The Lone Green Beret Single-Handedly Saved a Vietnamese Town from The Tet Offensive
In the Vietnam War, a lone Green Beret single-handedly saved a South Vietnamese town during the Tet Offensive. Initially rejected for special service due to…
The Vietnam Tanker That Fought Off an Ambush with His Colt 45
Dwight Johnson came from the housing projects in Detroit and became a recipient of the Medal of Honor in Vietnam. Even more noteworthy is that…
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975: Max Hastings tells it like it was from all viewpoints
In 1975, Saigon fell, bringing to a close a brutal conflict that had raged through Vietnam for 30 years. This conflict saw both the French…
John Ripley Faced Enemy Fire for Three Hours to Stop the North Vietnamese Advance
Đông Hà, the northernmost city in South Vietnam, was once bustling with military activity. Home of the 4th Marine Division and a major helicopter base,…
Crazy: General Westmoreland initiated plan to use nukes in Vietnam
Recently, the New York Times ran an extraordinary article about the Vietnam War. In it were facts that have only recently come to light and…