Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines during Operation Prairie II near the DMZ in 1967. The “Walking Dead” battalion earned the highest casualty rate in Marine Corps history during 47 ...
In early 1969, the 9th Marines and 2nd Battalion, 12th Marines pushed into the A Shau Valley to disrupt North Vietnamese ...
D. R. Howe (Glencoe, MN) treats the wounds of Private First Class D. A. Crum (New Brighton, PA), Company H, 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, during Operation Hue City. (USMC Photo) Charles ...
What began as a small deployment of U.S. Marines to protect an airbase at Da Nang in Vietnam escalated into one of the most divisive wars in U.S. history. United States Marines of the 9th ...