When Bob Hope gave a show at Lai Khe, Vietnam, at Christmas time in 1969, a young military photographer named Bill Geist was in the audience. On May 25, 2003, as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday ...
This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old ...
In the pre-dawn hours of Jan. 31, 1968, as the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong unleashed the Tet Offensive against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces and their allies, Lou Pumphrey was a 25-year-old ...
Lai Khe, South Vietnam, Mar. 31, 1968: 1st Aviation Battalion helicopters pick up men of 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry at Lai Khe. The men are conducting combat sweeps trying to locate 122 mm rocket ...