Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by ...

2012-04-21T10:09:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e7d/305185-m.jpgOn Sunday, October 1, 1967, CBS News aired a Special Report titled “The Ordeal of Con Thien ...

Somewhere around Con Thien, Vietnam: A Marine scans the perimeter for any enemy activity. Marines launched another phase of Operation Prairie IV on May 13, 1967. On May 16, Alpha Company of the 1st ...

David Douglas Duncan, the celebrated photographer who shot the picture that appears on this week's cover, remembers well the morning he took it--Sept. 19, 1967, at Con Thien. "There was mortar coming ...

In the history of warfare I find it interesting how seemingly insignificant places take on a momentous importance. Valley Forge, the Alamo, Gettysburg, and Bastogne became symbolic as bastions of ...

The latest report from Vietnam, based largely on files from correspondent David Greenway, who also took the image that appeared on this issue’s cover, found U.S. Marines under fire at Con Thien. The ...