Although minor in size, the battle at Firebase Maureen was nonetheless major in ferocity — enough to produce two Medal of ...

A member of the 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, the North Dakota soldier jumped on a grenade to save his brothers in arms and continued to fight throughout the night.

Some volunteered to go to Vietnam. But many of the soldiers who ... Troyer identified one victim only by his 101st Airborne tattoo. Troyer was lucky; he survived the year until his Date Eligible ...

(Henry Villarama/U.S. Army) For every battle in the Vietnam War, there were numerous small ... 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in January 1970. His destination: the Republic of Vietnam.

Before that, however, he served in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam in 1970, in the Casualty Branch, 101st Airborne Division ... There, they become prisoners of war in a place in which no ...

“They didn’t have frontlines in Vietnam, it was hotspots,” Williams said. “Being involved with the 101st Airborne and the ... a World War II veteran, to talk about his experience openly.