The Battle of Khe Sanh began 50 years ago this week when roughly 20,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounded an isolated combat base held by roughly 5,500 Marines.

The Battle of Khe Sanh was a brutal conflict during the Vietnam War... The Khe Sanh Combat Base was located in the Khe Sanh ...

January 21 marked the 50th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Khe Sanh. The battle started with around 20,000 men from the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) fighting against some 6,000 US Marines ...

But a major battle did occur at Khe Sanh—one that prevented the bloody hand-to-hand battle on the ground that many military men had anticipated.

A 19-year-old rifleman, this was Kimball's welcome into the Battle of Khe Sanh, 77 days of a bloody siege in Vietnam. Kimball said it was by the grace of God that he got out alive and he, ...

The troops fighting at Khe Sanh were young, many in their late teens. Horchler, who had “celebrated” his 21st birthday a month before the battle started, was one of the “older guys.” ...

The battle started Jan. 21, 1968, when the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong began shelling the U.S. Marine garrison of about 6,000 at the Khe Sanh Combat Base.

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War – the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans will gather to ...

SAN DIEGO — When the battle was over, Marines who fought in Vietnam labeled Hill 881 South “a deadly killing zone” in the long siege of Khe Sanh.

Sargent, 82, was a gunnery sergeant in Khe Sanh -- and, at 33, an "old man" among a group of guys in their 20s. Plourde, 70, was a Marine private first class who carried an M60 machine gun during ...

That battle, shaping up around the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh in South Viet Nam’s northwest corner, could be the biggest of the war.