The 5th Marine Regiment is known as the Fighting 5th and in Vietnam, they fought hard in unimaginable conditions. When the war was over, 2,706 Marines from the 5th and the Navy Corpsman that served ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Ken Benckwitz was spit on at John F. Kennedy International Airport. People threw feces at Dan Mulvihill at LAX. After his return, John Baker was told by the first girl he ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...