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 ...

James Capers was in Vietnam, leading his Marine Corps unit to blow up an enemy base on the side of a mountain. The engagement near Phu Loc just north of Da Nang is, in many people’s minds ...

The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines, who came ashore at Da nang on the coast of South Vietnam on March 8th 1965. Some Trudeau cabinet ...

File Photo courtesy Imperial War Museum In 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. It was the first deployment of a large U.S. ground combat unit to the country ...

Escalation President Johnson slowly increased the number of American troops on the ground in Vietnam. In 1965, two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect military bases at Da Nang.

Go Noi Island, Vietnam ... and Korean Marines are taking part in Operation Pipestone Canyon, aimed at clearing the Communists off of the island, located 10 miles south of Da Nang and five miles ...

Maj. James Capers’ bravery helped his men survive an enemy attack. Now South Carolina’s congressional delegation is asking ...