Dennis Darmek returned to battlefields in Vietnam to take the photographs in "Crossing the DMZ." He'll speak about the experience Oct. 14.

Dennis Darmek returned to battlefields in Vietnam to take the photographs in "Crossing the DMZ." He'll speak about the experience Oct. 14.

The terrain was as tough as any the U.S. Marines had ... trenches and concrete bunkers in the DMZ itself. There, according to Marine ... force in South Viet Nam to 317,500 ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

It was a time of waiting, watching and wondering along the DMZ. In their foxholes and fortified villages, from behind hedgerows and under the cover of banana plantations, the tough troops of three ...

He’s also a lifelong Marine who was ordered to Vietnam in the middle of the Tet ... just south of the Demilitarized Zone, or the DMZ. Then he was assigned to Lima Company and sent to Ca Lu.

So I joined the Marine reserves ... We could see the southern end of the DMZ.” Schiltz: “I never saw the Viet Cong that I know of. We saw all North Vietnamese. They all had uniforms.” ...

When Ehrhart arrived in Vietnam in February 1967, they were fighting in Quảng Trị province, south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ). Ehrhart and the Marines were involved in a far-reaching ...

Many Marines lay wounded for nearly 40 hours before medevac helicopters were able to land. In the battle which started Saturday four miles south of the DMZ, the Marines lost 26 killed and 232 wounded.

From Da Nang, Florez was sent north to Dong Ha, and then Charlie 2, the closest U.S. base to the DMZ separating South from North Vietnam. “There were several of us Marines that were sent over to ...