Somewhere near Dien Ban, South Vietnam, November 25, 1968: Pfc. Richard Villareal, left, and Lance Cpl. K.D. Johnson Jr. of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine ...

Harrington’s Delta Company with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines began the assault ... one of the defining battles of the Vietnam War, where 2,500 Marines took back a final urban stronghold of the ...

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 ...

"Swift Sword" delves deep into the harrowing experiences of the Marines of Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines (3/5 ... "I served in Vietnam and reading Swift Sword is as close as you ...