Many veterans who saw action in the Vietnam War have described military operations conducted in the A Shau Valley as hell on Earth. Nevertheless, the young men of the 9th Marine Regiment and the 2nd ...

It was February 1968, and the Vietnam War was in full swing. A young Marine, Alpha Company Commander Captain Mac Radcliffe, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines which ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Dr. Camacho served as a sergeant with the 9th Marines in Vietnam (1969-1969) and was wounded in action. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston College in 1986 and his MSIS from Northeastern ...

Dan Verton also contributed to this story. Brewin, Computerworld’s wireless and mobile reporter, landed in Danang, Vietnam, with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, on July 4, 1965.

Corporal David Gary Redenius was killed in April 1968 at the age of 20, while serving in the 3rd Marine Division, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines "Charlie" company. He died in Khe Sanh, southwest of ...

David Stewart Whitman, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, was just 19 years old when he was shot and killed in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion ...