Editor's note: This article is the third in a four-part series highlighting the life and Vietnam War experiences of the late Roger Buchta. The Tet Offensive had been a nightmarish period for those ...

In April 1968, I was a 21-year-old Air Force sergeant in Vietnam, assigned to an Army base camp surrounding the village of Lai Khe, nearly 40 miles north of Saigon. In April 1968, I was a ...

VIETNAM WAR U.S. MEMORIAL 1965 U.S. soldiers hold a memorial service for seven men of the U.S. 101st Airborne Brigade in a clearing near a former French rubber plantation in Lai Khe, Vietnam, Dec. 17, ...

ROCKFORD — Weeks after Rockford native Al Hoglund was deployed to Lai Khe base camp in Vietnam, the 19-year-old found himself on the sidelines of a disastrous battle that nearly wiped out an entire ...

On one unforgettable day in 1969, George McDaniel and his comrades in the 1st Infantry Division, 18th Regiment, were preparing to be air-lifted out of an ambush site in a jungle near Lai Khe, Vietnam.