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Jan 21, 2020 · It took the entire day to trek back about 400 yards. The engagement would be one of the deadliest days at Khe Sanh for the men of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, with 27 killed, one taken prisoner and 19 wounded, according to survivors and official reports.
Feb 25, 2012 · On the morning of 30 March 1968, Company B launched an attack on a well-entrenched, numerically superior North Vietnamese Army force near Khe Sanh Combat Base and immediately came under intense automatic weapons, mortar and anti-tank rocket fire.
- Below is the photograph of the moment Newsweek photographer Robert Ellison captured the dramatic efforts of Bravo Company's 3rd platoon to get back...
- In the first picture Pfc. Calvin Bright on the left is caught by Newsweek photographer Robert Ellision struggling to get back to the combat base. T...
- Another image of Bravo Company Marines struggling to get back to the base. There is a fantastic project underway about Bravo Company see the link b...
- Please disregard the previous posts of this topic when I said 67th anniversary I was typing this as I was watching a DVD documentary about Iwo Jima...
- Khe Sanh is the battle that comes to my mind most often... thank you for posting the narrative.
- The mortally wounded platoon Commander
- Here is the grave marker of the mass grave of the eight Marines whose remains were recovered March 30, 1968 after Bravo Company reassaulted the ene...
- Among the unidentified remains is Corporal Michael J. Brellenthin from North Bergen, NJ. Michael Brellenthin was married only two weeks prior to hi...
- the grave of Kenneth Claire. The photo of Kenneth Claire and 2 buddies from Bravo Co. below. Claire is the one in the middle.
- Another member of Bravo Company's 3rd platoon who gave his life that day was 19 year old Michael J. Laderoute. Michael was from Ottawa, Ontario, CA...
Feb 25, 2018 · Ken Rodgers at Khe Sanh. Photo courtesy of the late Dan Horton. The men of the Ghost Patrol are now just names to most people but the images of them lying in bomb craters with red water in the bottom, waiting for us to save them inhabit my being.
Oct 30, 2020 · He and 26 of his fellow Marines would not be coming back that night, their patrol would live on, forever known as “The Ghost Patrol.” A Marine lieutenant lost his way around the area and accidentally led his Marines into a devastating ambush.
- Blake Stilwell
In memory of my Cousin James Robert Bruder who died in the Ghost Patrol. The full documentary is available on Amazon Prime at https://www.amazon.com/Bravo-Co...
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- Timothy I. Warke
Heavy-weapons fire ravaged the Kilo command group, seriously wounding the company commander and first sergeant and killing the gunnery sergeant. Marines sealed the breach as supporting fire from Khe Sanh Combat Base and Hill 881 South, to the west, pounded the attackers.
Feb 25, 2022 · Fifty-one years ago today at Khe Sanh, Marines from 1st and 3rd Platoons of Bravo/1/26 went out on patrol from the combat base and walked into an ambush that killed 27 Marines and Corpsmen and wrecked the psyches and memories of a hell of a bunch of young warriors.
