In the fall of 1967, a land mine in Vietnam killed a Fort Mill teen, husband and expectant father on his first patrol as a Marine. A month later, another mine killed a Rock Hill soldier with 10 ...

SAN DIEGO — Bobby Moffatt and Joe Cordileone were privates first class when they advanced on Hill 881 South in Vietnam, on April 30, 1967. The Battle of Khe Sanh was their first firefight, and, they ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

On June 11, 1967, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David Boyer wrote a letter to his father, Elwood. “I’m writing this letter now in case I get blown away,” he wrote. His father had been worried about his son.

Rep. Jim Gregory, R-Blair, authored a bill naming a bridge over the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River in honor of Cpl. Ralph Hammel, who was killed in Vietnam by a mortar shell in 1967. Joining ...