U.S. military officials vVould not give the exact number of casualties for security reasons. Battalion policy was that we had to fill in all holes and empty our sandbags each time we left a position. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Set. 1.04 Flames illuminated the clouds, forming an eerie glow; flares hung in the sky and helicopter gunships crossed back and forth firing red streams of tracers into the city. forever the big pieces stopped. The village of Ho Nai, now a ghost town, still smoldered. Dames killed them with a burst from his M-16 probably saving the lives of everyone on my track. There was an ammo dump explosion in 1968 also and both 1967 and 1968 are correct and were of course separate incidents. Shoe of soldier on ground. This site requires JavaScript. As our medics treated the wounded, I reported to the American lieutenant colonel who was the III Corps G3 adviser. The armed helicopter teams had a field day shooting guerrillas who tried to escape to the nearby jungles. As we rolled by, we looked down into the compound and saw soldiers in khakis milling about with boarding passes in hand. carried on into that night with tracers flying everywhere. When the Tet cease-fire period began on January 28, the battalion was called back to the vicinity of Bear Cat, a base camp near Long Thanh. Benny Toney, the 2nd Platoon sergeant, hooked a tow cable to Stormy. [3]:218, The town of Ho Nai (105812N 1065335E / 10.970N 106.893E / 10.970; 106.893) was located on Highway 1 north of the Widow's Village and Long Binh Post. . agreement was that the stockade prisoners would pitch our sandbags, help His action probably saved the lives of everyone on my track. Later, captured VC said many guerrillas only had two magazines for their weapons in expectation that the population would rise up against the Americans and have plenty of captured weapons to fight with. We packed up all of our gear, rolled up our concertina wire and waited. the light dome that rose from the explosion. He manned the .50 and, with a Charlie Company driver, started off down Highway 1. happened to hit him just over the forehead. hightForP2 = 330 The recon platoon was ordered to establish a blocking position south of Long Binh on Highway 15. Love was so startled, he didnt fire. danger and the probable best course of action. 0.42 PDF Scanned Document - United States Army
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