Scattered attacks had intensified during the last hours of April 30, 1968, at the Dong Ha sector. The Marines, fierce as ever ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following historical recollection was contributed by Leon Cederlind of Phillips, who was a U.S. Marines helicopter pilot and first lieutenant from 1964 to 1970. He served during the ...

It was Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972. At 12:45, John W. Ripley received confirmation from Army Maj. James Smock, advisor to the 20th Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Tank Battalion, that the two ...

Retired Marine Corps Col. John W. Ripley, a Vietnam war hero who was awarded the Navy Cross for risking his life to blow up a strategic Highway 1 bridge that halted the advance of North Vietnamese ...

Retired Marine Corps Col. John W. Ripley, a Vietnam war hero who was awarded the Navy Cross for risking his life to blow up a strategic Highway 1 bridge that halted the advance of North Vietnamese ...

The silhouettes of U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Division, loaded down with gear and armored vests, are set off by the rising sun at the airstrip at Dong Ha, eight miles south of the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. JOHN W. RIPLEY entered US Marine Corps lore when he single-handedly blunted a major North Vietnamese offensive by blowing up the Dong Ha ...

Vietnam 1968 - This big-bore weapon was captured by 3rd Division Marines during an engagement with the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near Dong Ha. The “big gun” has been fashioned from a M-79 grenade ...

I was at Dong Ha, South Vietnam when it was rocketed one morning in July 1969 by the North Vietnamese Army. The Kauai Landscape Industry Council will be celebrating Arbor Day on Saturday from 9 a.m.