Selasa, 31 Januari 2017

In the Beginning, There was the Hump

The 173rd Airborne’s fight with the Viet Cong in November 1965 was the Army’s first major battle of the Vietnam War. My breath came in short gasps. I tried to bur- row into the ground and crawl inside my helmet at the same time. Other men were spread out in groups of two or three. …

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