Nine years later, his son, Richard Fitzgibbon III, a Marine lance corporal, was killed on Sept. 7, 1965, in combat near Quang Tin. He was a 1962 graduate of Weymouth High School.

He was 35 years old. Nine years later, his son, Richard Fitzgibbon III, a Marine lance corporal, was killed on Sept. 7, 1965, in combat near Quang Tin. He was a 1962 graduate of Weymouth High School.

Of the 58,220 U.S. military service members who died in Vietnam, more than 1,300 were from Massachusetts. These are the stories of the men who were among the first and last to die on Vietnam soil.

These conflicts may make Americans feel that they paid a heavy price for the Vietnam War, a price in addition to the more than 58,000 Americans who died. But 3 million Vietnamese died on all sides.

Scott Camil, Vietnam Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps (R) (Courtesy of Netflix) Knappenberger’s third installment in his “Turning Point” series follows a look at the ways the nuclear bomb ...

More than 100 photojournalists died from the mid-1950s to 1975 in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, including Robert Capa, one of World War II’s most admired figures, and Larry Burrows, a photo-essay ...