David H. Lyman, like a good number of potential draftees in the 1960s, joined the military reserves in a desire to stay out of Vietnam during the war. Ironically, he ended up in Vietnam as a member of ...

The biggest thrill I ever experienced was watching the first landing of an A-4 Skyhawk jet fighter on the 23 rd day after our arrival on the beach in Chu Lai, in what was then South Vietnam. It was ...

When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, nobody fired a shot at them. But later that day, as he drove his M48 ...