As a result, he ordered that Khe Sanh be held at all costs. General Westmoreland would step up the air campaign with B-52 bombers, and move half of the US Army's mobile reserve in Vietnam to the area.

Our second day ends at Khe Sanh, the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam war. North Vietnamese forces attacked American positions here and laid siege to their base. The United ...

In January 1968, the People's Army of North Vietnam bombarded the US Marine garrison at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. The siege lasted 77 days and was one of the longest and most gruesome battles in ...

By the end of 1967, the Communist cause in the Vietnam War was in deep trouble ... together with the siege of Khe Sanh, crippled the NVA, which lost 20 percent of its forces in the South and ...

The fighting is recounted in six half-hour programs: "The Chopper War"; "Air Power at Khe Sanh: Marines in Battle"; "River, Seas and Air: The Navy at War"; "Tank Attack!"; "Jungle Warfare"; and ...