Fifty years ago, it was the site of a brutal battle at the United States Army’s Firebase Bird – and until recently, it was the location of a mass grave containing the remains of 60 people. By 1966, ...

Army Pfc. Kenneth J. David drew enemy fire to save the wounded. Capt. Hugh R. Nelson Jr. was killed while using his body to ...

For Spencer Matteson, the memories of a battlefield "covered with dead bodies" are still painful. But with his help, Vietnamese excavation teams found the remains of approximately 60 soldiers, who ...

Decades after the Vietnam War, US soldiers are returning to the ... to the Kim Son Valley and the site of the 1966 battle at Firebase Bird. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

In the midst of war, courage often emerges from unexpected places. For Bluffton resident Patrick Hellandbrand, it was not ...

U.S. Special Forces troops ("Green Berets") under the command of Colonel Mike Kirby defend a firebase during the Vietnam war. War correspondent George Beckwith accompanies Kirby and objects to ...