‘Fear and agony’ The battle for Hill 937 was kind of a high-water mark of U.S. operations in Vietnam. At the time, there were more than 500,000 U.S. troops on the ground, and this was a rare ...

Not a brush with Vietnamese police. Mannion, 54, was on a trail to Hill 861 northwest of Khe Sanh, Vietnam. For four months in 1967 and 1968 Mannion, then a Marine corporal, had lived on that hill ...

May, 1969 The Battle of Hamburger Hill, fought in the thick jungle of the mountainous A Shau Valley in South Vietnam, was an attempt to seize a heavily fortified enemy base camp. Ultimately the ...

More than 50 years after the Vietnam War gripped the world's attention ... Locations like Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, and Khe Sanh, once synonymous with conflict and etched in ...