The Khe Sanh Battlefield is located in an area of Vietnam that is full of action. It is only 14 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and just a few miles east of the border of Laos. Historians and Military Analysts agree that the reason the Marines had their combat base in Khe Sanh was to mount an attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail Network from Khe Sanh into Laos.  The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) made its first major contact with the American Marine force in 1967. Appropriately named The 67 Hill Fights, the Marines perused and took control of three major hilltops 881N 881S and 861. The Hilltops area named for their elevation in meters above sea level. The second major meeting of NVA and American troops occurred during the beginning of 1968. The NVA Siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) was part of a much bigger attack on the Americans know as the Tet Offensive. During the Siege of the KSCB the NVA completely surrounded the base hoping to overrun the American force. The Marines held firm as they were relentlessly pounded day in and out by enemy artillery for a seemly endless 77 days. Despite being surrounded the Marines never relinquished control of the base.

In many research projects and studies there is always a large group of data that cannot be used or cannot be displayed due to a lack of information or a corruption in the dataset. In most research this data gets briefly described as the thrown out data and never is focused on to heavily. This particular dataset and research is very different from most. The data is not just a bunch of numbers and coordinates. The data has names, families, stories and importance behind every entry. It is for these reasons that the data which is normally thrown out, is predominantly displayed on my website. It is necessary and a duty to honor those men who could not be given coordinates and used in the research. The spreadsheet that is seen here is the complete list of all the combat deaths related to the Khe Sanh area between 1964 and 1968 in which our dataset has no coordinates. The completion of the dataset is in progress, through the last fallen American on November 20 1972, and will be finished sometime in the near future. When I have the rest of my zero coordinate data this spreadsheet will be completed and updated. If the reader or anyone has any reliable data regarding the location of any of these men I highly encourage you to contact us and allow us to place these men in their proper locations.