Black Virgin Mountain, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1969: A patrol is about to depart on a mission outside the mountain top’s perimeter wire in search of enemy activity. Multi-service forces had been ...
The year is 1969, the height of the war in Vietnam. The United States has been involved for about four years at this point and the war is growing more and more unpopular by the day. The Vietnam War ...
CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...
Remains of Vietnam War draft card. In December of 1969, the United States held its first military draft lottery in almost three decades. It would decide the fate of young men across the country as the ...
Black Virgin Mountain, South Vietnam, Oct. 14, 1969: A soldier walks on the outer edge of “Black’s Bathtub,” atop Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin) mountain as clouds roll by behind him at the outpost at an ...