CAMP PENDLETON — A memorial honoring Marines and sailors who died during the Vietnam ... Marine Division reunion. Colwell, 73, who served as an officer with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines ...

Marines and Sailors of the 1st Marine Division will dedicate ... In May 1966, 5th Marines deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam and remained until April 1971. During the war, the regiment ...

He was deployed to Vietnam in early 1968 and served with "H" Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 5th Marine Division. His unit was the first Marine regiment to fly into a combat zone. Roden ...

Those gathered Monday included 250 Gold Star families, hundreds of Vietnam veterans, top commanders from the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Division and active duty Marines ...

Over the two-day period, the division hosted veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam ... the 1st Marine Regiment, an infantry battalion, and after lunch concluded at the 5th Marine ...

5th Marine Division, a division that had been disbanded after World War II. He left the following year for Vietnam where he served for 15 months as a point man and radio operator for patrols from ...

were in the rice paddies of Vietnam. Members of the 2nd Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, they were on a search-and-destroy mission called ...

He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and sent overseas, where he stayed for more than 15 months (earning the Bronze Star and Purple Heart).

South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...