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 ...
When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight ...
From his pilot perch in the busy cockpit of a workhorse CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, Marine 1st Lt. Harold G. “Hal” Walker witnessed the horrors and heroics of the Vietnam War. “I was an observer, ...