During the Vietnam War, Weatherly resident Phil Jeffries saw firsthand the horror of that conflict despite never having to engage directly in the guerrilla combat. Jeffries, now 80, served in the U.S.

James Russell Butcher Jr., a portrait painter and illustrator who was a Vietnam War Marine Corps combat artist, died of ...

Dwight Hal Johnson received the nation's highest military honor in 1968. Three years later, he was killed during an attempted ...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called ...

A Study of Patriotism, The Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul,” by Matthew Delmont. Viking, 368 pp. $32. In 1965, when only a small fraction of Americans supported ending U.S. military ...

It took months of risk and danger in the Vietnam War before U.S. Marine Cpl. Dennis Fisher got used to reaching for his camera instead of his firearm.

We were living at Geiger Trailer Park, which were these little bitty trailers that I think Eleanor Roosevelt had arranged for ...

Making an epic movie is an unfathomably huge task, but some directors, like David Lean, Sergio Leone, and Akira Kurosawa, managed to master it.

West of Pleiku, South Vietnam, Nov. 20, 1966: An unidentified 25th Infantry soldier receives communion from Chaplain (Maj.) Michael S. Filip of the Archdiocese of Detroit, at 1st Battalion, 14th ...

This DCS World scenario recreates a 1967 Vietnam War strike mission flown by the A-4E Skyhawk. The mission highlights the challenges faced by attack pilots, including low-level flying, heavy defenses, ...

It’s the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her ...

When Jerry Ferris was a senior at Withrow High School in 1967, he convinced five of his classmates to enlist with him in the U.S. Marines. The six of them went through Boot Camp together, were flown ...