The 4 Month Long Battle for Support Station Ripcord
FSB Ripcord Quad 50 1970- photo by Jack Wilhite 2/506 The Vietnam War was coming to its bitter end for the US Army by 1970…
Family Still Believes Green Beret Killed During Vietnam War Has Been Found Alive
On the 25th October 1936, John Hartley Robertson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He had the nickname Johnny and was one of five siblings born…
Vietnam Helictoper Helped Save 40 Troops And For Helicopter Crewmen To Receive Medal Of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the highest military award for bravery that America can bestow upon its soldiers. The medal is awarded personally by the…
25 Years On: The 101st Airborne Division Remembers The Gulf War
A quarter-century after the end of the Gulf War, Fort Campbell’s 101st Airbourne Division looks back on the war that gave the U.S. military their…
Gunship Wanted: Fairchild AC-119K Stinger For An Aviation Museum Display
Feature Photo depicts an AC-119K Stinger while firing its array of guns in an attack on North Vietnamese trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail (early…
Paul Bucha with a single Company FIghts Off An Entire NVA Battalion and Earn the Medal of Honor
It was the height of the Vietnam War. When the 3rd Battalion of the 187th Infantry decided to add a fourth company to their…
Youngest Vietnam War US Marine Was 14 Years Old, He Was Killed In Action Age 15
The story of an underage US Marine who fought in the Vietnam War has been uncovered. Dan Bullock joined the US Marines so that he…
Three of a kind: The stories of three pilots from different conflicts – Reviewed by Mark Barnes
The self-publishing juggernaut rumbles on with this entertaining and quite personal work from Kerry White from Australia. Having published two previous books, he now turns to the…
Vietnam POW For Seven Years, Fred Cherry, Dies At 87
Fred Vann Cherry was born on the 24th March 1928 in Suffolk. At this time the Jim Crow laws were in effect and racial segregation…
With the Enemy Approaching, He Sat Beside His Wounded Comrade, Pulled the Pin on Two Grenades, and Waited
Refusing to leave his mortally wounded comrade as the enemy approached, Australian Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pin on two grenades and waited for…
Leave No Man Behind: The Search for Missing Soldiers in Vietnam
Technical Sergeant Robin Bailon, didn’t think she’d end up where she did. She originally enlisted in the Air Force to help serve her country, but…
The Eve Of Destruction For Ex-Vietnam C-47’s Gooney Birds. Read How They Came To Their Sad End
In this Dakota Hunter Blog, I describe how Vietnam Veteran Douglas C-47’s Gooney Birds / Dakota’s were dumped in the Andaman Sea, Phuket, Thailand. I…