The amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli arrived for a Da Nang port call alongside the guided-missile cruiser USS Robert ...

- Newly-landed U.S. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, Vietnam, on their way to reinforce the ...

This post has been updated to show USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is in port in Vietnam, not in the Philippine Sea. These are the ...

Dien Ban, South Vietnam, Nov. 25, 1968: An unidentified Marine crouches down on one knee as G Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division makes a stop during a sweep through ...

Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially ...

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 ...

Clinton Larry Smith, a decorated Vietnam veteran and retired Marine Corps sergeant from Andalusia, passed away at 78, leaving ...

March 8, 1965: The U.S. Marines storm Da Nang, marking the first major ground troop deployment of the Vietnam War. This was the beginning of America’s longest war. How the cracks are beginning to show ...

As Da Nang bolsters its marine economy and logistics services, the Lien Chieu Port, one of its flagship infrastructure ...