Ohio native Michael Ryan was 18 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1963, and he was assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He landed in Da Nang and spent ...

U.S. Marines, rifles hanging from their shoulders, put their brawn behind a vehicle on the beach at Da Nang Bay during landing operations in Vietnam on March 8, 1965. They are members of the 3rd ...

From the shores of Tripoli to the jungles of Da Nang and the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, Marines will have fought the country’s battles for 240 years Tuesday. On its birthday, the Marine Corps is ...

After shipping over from the reserves to active duty in 1967, Crossdraw was assigned to Marine Fighter/Attack Squadron VMFA-323 — The Death Rattlers — who were then stationed at Da Nang in beautiful ...

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 ...

Minutes after he was presented a Certificate of Honor on Saturday, David Icard of Buena Vista recalled the night he saw five Marines severely wounded during a mortar attack near Da Nang in South ...