Marine awarded Navy Cross at Vietnam War’s Battle of Hue remembered as ‘magnificent,’ humble leader
Fighting in the City of Hue as a Marine, Myron Harrington was awarded the Silver Star and Navy Cross a week apart.
Marines go ashore in Vietnam
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 ...
On This Day: 1st large unit of U.S. ground troops lands in South Vietnam
In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat ...
The Secret Sacrifice: The 15-year-old Marine who became the youngest serviceman killed in Vietnam
His fellow Marines in Vietnam were hit hard when Dan Bullock was killed but they didn't find out until weeks later than he was just 15 years old.
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Marine corporal awarded Navy Cross 55 years after Vietnam heroics
It was a few weeks into a months-long operation in Vietnam's A Shau Valley on Feb. 13, 1969, when Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel ...