Every February, Black History Month shines a light on Americans whose contributions shaped the nation. One belongs to Pfc.

By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...

Capt. George Phillips told his story to a group of young Marines and Sailors as they visited the site of the military ...

BROCKTON — Lorraine Burbank was 10 in the summer of 1967. One day a priest and two Marines showed up at the gate. It meant her older brother was dead. Marine Cpl. Wladyslaw "Scotty" Staniszewski was ...

Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...

In the fall of 1967, a land mine in Vietnam killed a Fort Mill teen, husband and expectant father on his first patrol as a Marine. A month later, another mine killed a Rock Hill soldier with 10 ...

Of all the sovereign nation-state military forces that fought against the communists in Vietnam, the ROK Marines—who trace their founding back to April 15, 1949—arguably had the most fearsome ...

James Russell Butcher Jr., a Vietnam War Marine Corps combat artist and longtime Maryland portrait painter, died Jan. 19 at 81.

Replica of Vietnam Veterans War Memorial is coming to Independence in September. Independence Marine Corps veteran Billy Whisenant has friends on The Wall That Heals. This is part of a weekly series ...