Khe Sanh bears some topographical resemblance to Dienbienphu, sitting at the bottom of its bowl of hills, vulnerable to artillery and machine-gun fire from the heights both at the camp and its ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War...The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, a coastal province of South ...

In early 1968, on a blood-red plateau of viciously contested soil called Khe Sanh, a small force of grim-faced Americans added a heroic chapter to the storied annals of the U.S. Marine Corps. For ...

Last Stand at Khe Sanh describes how the North Vietnamese threw everything they had at Khe Sanh's "Alamo-like" defenders — infantry, mortars, heavy artillery, tanks, trenches and even tunnels.

On Jan. 24, 1968, Westmoreland asked Sharp to move tactical nuclear weapons into northern Quang Tri province as a last-ditch effort to prevent North Vietnamese forces from capturing Khe Sanh.

In May, we were relocated to Khe Sanh, where we occupied the combat base and surrounding hills in the jungle. We conducted patrols, ambushes and listening posts to prevent infiltration of the ...

THE WAR Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed ...

The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, a coastal province of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

At a 2007 reunion of Khe Sanh veterans, Norton and McCartney crossed paths again and became friends. Both are mentioned in a new book that examines the battle from the viewpoint of those who did ...