Larry Grant Jones, a USMC Vietnam War veteran and Silver Star recipient, died March 2 at his home in Tuolumne County. He was 78. Jones earned the Silver Star in July 1968 by saving more than 20 of his ...

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 was called “the Walking ...

On March 4, 1966, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched Operation Utah, an effort to counter the growing number of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam's ...

Helena Marine Pat McCain served 13 months as a radio forward observer in Vietnam, with the Marine Corps' Golf Company, Ninth Marines, Second Battalion, Third Division. McCain was employed in a grocery ...

Festival born after books banned in Madison schools ...

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 ...

During the month of November, the 39th Lights for Peace flag to fly at the Fort Taber - Fort Rodman Military Museum honors the memory of CPL Robert Roland Gonneville, who served with the United States ...