When Bob Hope gave a show at Lai Khe, Vietnam, at Christmas time in 1969, a young military photographer named Bill Geist was in the audience. On May 25, 2003, as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday ...
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.
Lai Khe, South Vietnam, Mar. 31, 1968: 1st Aviation Battalion helicopters pick up men of 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry at Lai Khe. The men are conducting combat sweeps trying to locate 122 mm rocket ...