Friends, veterans and other supporters pay tribute during a memorial for Marine Pfc. Michael Terry, who died exactly 50 years earlier from wounds suffered when a comrade triggered a hidden explosive. ...

BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

Longtime Bakersfield resident and U.S. Marine combat veteran Charlie Wilmot served in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. Nearly 60 years later, Wilmot is still serving — as a volunteer with ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, Ill. (WLS) -- Social media is connecting a Chicago-area family to its roots. A video recently tweeted shows Sylvester Bracey talking about racism while he was a soldier during the ...

Marine veteran Bill Klobas, 71, (left) finally received a Purple Heart for wounds he received in 1969 while serving in Vietnam. His daughter Casey Byington fought for months to get the award approved.

correctionAn earlier version of this article failed to acknowledge a 2019 New York Times Magazine investigation that made a persuasive case that A.B. Grantham was not actually the Marine in the iconic ...