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 ...

He turned 19 shortly after being sent to Vietnam in 1966 to serve with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines. By the time he turned 21, he was medically retired after being wounded during a ...

Heller, a U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, during his Navy Cross ... Heller was leading 3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment when the NVA ambush kicked off ...

CLEVES, Ohio (ENQUIRER) - Daniel Leroy “Duke” Heller spent 13 months and eight days in Vietnam as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps ... 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment. He recalls the ambush ...

At just 15 years old, Dan Bullock became the youngest American serviceman killed in the Vietnam War—his true age was a secret even to the Marines until after his death. Bullock altered his birth ...

He later transferred to the Marine Corps, rising from sergeant ... and completing 204 combat sorties in Vietnam. An apex of his service was commanding the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade during ...