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 ...

Specialist 4th Class Franklin G. Atkinson Jr. served as an infantryman with the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, United States Army, during the Vietnam War. He was from ...

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.

Dates of Service: June 21, 1967, to Jan. 23, 1969, Deployments/Bases: Vietnam from Nov. 14, 1967 to Jan. 23, 1969, 1st Division, 1st MP Co., Dian-Lai Khe-Quan Loy. Total time that you served? 19 ...

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 ...