The Navy has christened its newest destroyer in the name of Patrick Gallagher, a Camp Pendleton-trained Marine who threw himself on a hand grenade in Vietnam in July 1966, protecting fellow Marines ...
THE ROCKPILE, Vietnam — It's a freak of nature, a jagged piece of rock shaped like Gibraltar that rises 750 feet in the air. In other wars it could have been called Bunker Hill, Heartbreak Ridge or ...
Landing Zone Mack, South Vietnam, Oct. 9, 1966: A Marine hit on the head and back by grenade shrapnel receives medical attention from a Navy corpsman, about 50 yards from the top of Hill 484, also ...