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 Jeeps ...

cannons, their long tubes zeroed in on besieged Marines. Altogether, Hanoi’s gunners poured more explosives into Khe Sanh than they had into Dienbienphu, reaching a peak on Feb. 23, when 1,300 ...

Dark Docs 77 Days Without Sleep - Marines Last Stand at Khe Sanh Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 On January 21, 1968, after months of gathering thousands of troops and ...

Lance Corporal, Marines, communications platoon ... When 3/26 first arrived at Khe Sanh, daily life was a routine of settling in: digging bunkers, filling sand bags, extending the perimeter ...

It looks like many other small country towns in Vietnam, slow paced, surrounded by untamed terrain and full of noisy motor bikes. We are about 10 kilometres from the border with Laos.

At 4 a.m. March 30, 1968, Bravo Company Marines set out from their base at Khe Sanh to recover the bodies ... didn't make it and said that after the Vietnam Memorial wall was completed in 1983 ...