JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)- At 24 years old, Keith Jones was surprised he was drafted into the Vietnam War because he thought he was too old. That time in the Army is something he is still proud of ...

A Vietnam veteran returned home after two years as a combat medic. He'd treated gunshot wounds, performed emergency procedures and saved lives under fire. Civilian hospitals wouldn't hire him. His ...

Vietnam Army medic battled horrible conditions to treat combat casualties before career as surgeon ...

Career Army veteran Joseph Leuze of Glendale Heights learned in 1977 his uniform was missing a Purple Heart medal he’d apparently been awarded for injuries suffered years earlier in Vietnam. The ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — WKRG and parent company Nexstar will air a special report marking the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The special will air on ...

Warrant Officer Stephen Peth was making his final turn at treetop level when he looked through the green Plexiglas above his head. In the landing zone below, South Vietnamese soldiers were standing ...

On a Sunday morning 55 years ago in Chu Lai, Vietnam, retired Army Col. Elizabeth G. Gorman Jr. had just sent the nurses under her command off to church when a frantic call came over the radio. A ...

SOLDIERS. BUT WHAT MANY OVERLOOK. IT’S FULL OF HEROINES AS WELL. SO WAS THIS HERS, OR DO WE KNOW? I BELIEVE THAT IS HERS. WOW. AT THE MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY, AIR MUSEUM, OR MAPS IN ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – From operating theatre to theatre of operations. In 1968, Dr. Carl Wirth was training to be a surgeon in upstate New York, but then came an abrupt shift from lab coats to ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Lawyers for a woman whose 2020 fall from the fifth-story of alleged serial rapist Sean Williams's downtown Johnson City apartment filed new arguments Thursday in her ...