"Another thing that broke my heart was that there were a lot of babies, a lot of mothers, innocent people that were being ...

We’ve been learning about Karl Porisch’s Vietnam service, piloting CH-46 helicopters with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263 (MMH 263) out of Marble Mountain Airfield south of Danang. He arrived ...

We have been learning about Karl Porisch, who graduated from Mankato State College in 1968 and completed Marine Corps officer and helicopter flight training. The Marine Corps assigned him to ...

From Dunkirk (2017) to Schindler’s List (1993), here are the greatest war movies of all time. War, like Westerns, is one of ...

On Saturday, those who fought in that conflict gathered at the USS Hornet in Alameda for a ceremony marking National Vietnam War Veterans Day and they reflected on what lessons may have been learned ...

Helmets: The life-saving shield Helmets are mandatory safety gear for motorcycle riders in Vietnam, but many people still underestimate their importance. At a public event promoting helmet use held on ...

Widely regarded as one of the finest and most uncompromising war films ... of U.S. Marines and ends with the chaotic and morally ambiguous realities of combat in Vietnam. The film’s first ...

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 ...