Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doug Hegdahl, pictured in captivity around Christmastime in 1968, was serving with the Navy on a warship off the coast of Vietnam ...

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is stepping down: Navy Secretary John C. Phelan has resigned, with Undersecretary Hung Cao stepping in as acting chief. Cao, a 25-year Navy veteran and Vietnamese ...

Vice Admiral Nguyen An Phong, Political Commissar of the Vietnam People's Navy, has reaffirmed that the force is steadily ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — John Brooks was set to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, but he had his sights set on becoming a Navy Frogman. A Navy Frogman is commonly known now as a Navy ...

This year marks 50 years since the Vietnam War ended with the capture of Saigon by communist forces, and among those who escaped and survived are a Mason woman and her family, who arrived in the ...

A plaque will be dedicated Sunday at Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial to honor the heroism of Vietnam veteran retired Navy Cmdr. Clyde E. Lassen, who was awarded the Medal of Honor. The ...

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two turbulent years as president of The Washington Post, died Nov. 6 at his ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Before Len Hobbs turned 20 years old, he was already serving in the U.S. Navy, in Vietnam during the war. It was there that helicopters became the focus of his early adult life. Hobbs ...

GILMER, Texas (KLTV) - Camp Billy Machen Memorial Park honors Billy Machen, the first U.S. Navy SEAL killed in the Vietnam War. The park is home to a historical marker in Gilmer on the land where ...

Merle G. Ritter, a Navy veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, celebrated for his military service and ...