1 / 14 Show Caption + The Vietnam War-era Army uniform of Alan Blencoe is shown March 6, 2023, at the Fort McCoy History Center at Fort McCoy, Wis. Blencoe, a former Army sergeant who served in ...

Capt. Darby Reynolds and three others were the first Navy nurses to receive a Purple Heart in Vietnam. The Dover High School graduate was injured during the Saigon Christmas Eve bombing in 1964.

The family of a Vietnam veteran who owned a missing mess kit has been contacted by a man who has had the item in his storage unit in Alaska. The mess kit will go to the veteran’s son, who was 1 ...