For Mike Troyer, an acting squad leader within Delta Company, the ambush of October 17 came just three months after he arrived in Vietnam, and what mattered on that terrible day was whether you ...

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at just 19 years old. While in Vietnam, he was wounded during an ambush when his unit came under heavy fire. That prompted him to be awarded the Purple Heart, a VA ...

In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion. On a campus in Wisconsin, a student protest against the war spiraled out of control. April ...

during the Vietnam War, such as the ambush scene in "Forrest Gump" (1994), starring Tom Hanks, and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He covers the public ...

“They didn’t have frontlines in Vietnam, it was hotspots,” Williams ... you’re looking for an ambush down the trail so you had to be looking all over.” His curiosity led him to undertake ...

Lawrence Brooks, a Vietnam veteran, was recognized for his service by Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency Director Brian L. Love ...

He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at just 19 years old. While in Vietnam, he was wounded during an ambush when his unit came under heavy fire. That prompted him to be awarded the Purple Heart ...