Long Night on Hill 488

In June 1966, a Marine recon platoon, surrounded and vastly outnumbered, achieved one of the war’s most audacious victories. Wearing his old jungle boonie hat, Ray Hildreth hunkered in the wheat-like grass at the top of Nui Vu Hill where he had fought exactly 45 years earlier. Far from his mean, lean days in the …

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