Jim Matchin, a Vietnam War veteran, lives in Vicenza, Italy, and is working on memorials for 173rd Airborne Brigade soldiers killed in the war.

On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam were ambushed by over 1200 V.C. Forty-eight American soldiers lost their lives that day.

As the veterans of World War II and Korea slip away from us, we look to our Vietnam era veterans and more recent veterans of ... C, 1st Brigade, 503rd Infantry of the 173rd Army Airborne ...

While activated during the Vietnam War, 173rd Airborne Brigade was known as 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) and spent most of its time in the country of Vietnam. Though Sgt. James Dassinger ...

Armored Personnel Carriers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade rumble along in a tanks as they move through Vietnam's War Zone C to a new area of operations, March 9, 1967, during the Vietnam War. The ...

J. Ross Franklin, one of the two superiors whom Herbert accused of covering up war crimes, was deputy commander of the 173rd Airborne from December 1968 to June 1969. Advertisement ...

An iconic Vietnam War photograph shot June 18, 1965, by the late Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Horst Faas that is captioned as an unidentified American soldier of the 173rd Airborne ...

In the desperate fight for Hill 875 in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands, at least 20 soldiers from the United States Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade were killed in one of the deadliest friendly ...

Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were dug in on the steep southern slope of Hill 875, fighting beside napalm fires and exposed to the guns of North Vietnamese Army shooting from tunnels nearby.

In late 1965, Lt. Jack Price of the 173rd Airborne’s 503rd Infantry Regiment bought his company a lifetime subscription to Playboy. ... Playboy was the magazine of the Vietnam War.

U.S. paratroopers dash across clearing to helicopters that will lift them out of this section of jungle in War Zone C in Vietnam in March 1967 and drop them ... (4th Batt.) 173rd Airborne ...