Suffering two broken legs and heavy bleeding, Capers continued fighting and directed his team in the counterattack.

Lawmakers have renewed an effort to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. James Capers Jr., a reconnaissance Marine who in 1967 led his nine-member team to safety despite being grievously wounded in the ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being ...

Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Marine Corps veteran Paul Boucherle shows his unit’s logo that was used only on the aircraft carrier because it was controversial in the U.S. The unit was known as ...

He was 75. Born in Lakeview, Oregon, Mawhinney began his legendary career in 1967 after he graduated from high school and enlisted in the Marine Corps that year to fight in Vietnam. Upon joining ...

His path to the Marine Corps and Vietnam might be traced to his days at the University of Illinois, where he studied after his youth and high school years in Barnhill, Illinois. “The Vietnam War ...

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Sgt. David "Terry" Fox was ... to rescue two reconnaissance teams under heavy enemy fire in South Vietnam on May 15, 1969, and for his service with the Troy Fire Department.

(KGTV) — It’s been a nearly two-and-a-half-year journey to unveil a newly restored Vietnam War Memorial ... disgrace," said Barry Graham, U.S. Marine Corps veteran. For Barry Graham, seeing ...

The last day Jack Simpson had both his legs was Nov. 10, 1968, when he was a 19-year-old Marine Corps soldier deployed for the Vietnam War. At 6 a.m. Nov. 11 — on Veterans Day — Simpson ...

Retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War. (Courtesy of Jim Capers) A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a ...

Maybe it’s just one of those things.” Capers spent 22 years in the Marine Corps and after his heroism in Vietnam became the face of the service’s first recruiting campaign targeting young ...