Poet and writer W.D. Ehrhart is author or editor of seventeen books, including "Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir." A longer version of this essay will appear in the Winter, 2002 Virginia ...

Con Thien Valley, Vietnam, May 16, 1967: Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, supported by tanks, moves out on a platoon-sized sweep. Attacked by North Vietnamese Army troops, the Marines ...

Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by ...

2012-04-21T10:09:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e7d/305185-m.jpgOn Sunday, October 1, 1967, CBS News aired a Special Report titled “The Ordeal of Con Thien ...

Somewhere around Con Thien, Vietnam: A Marine scans the perimeter for any enemy activity. Marines launched another phase of Operation Prairie IV on May 13, 1967. On May 16, Alpha Company of the 1st ...

The latest report from Vietnam, based largely on files from correspondent David Greenway, who also took the image that appeared on this issue’s cover, found U.S. Marines under fire at Con Thien. The ...