Selasa, 14 November 2017

Pictures of Hell at Dong Xoai

A DISTRICT TOWN 55 miles north of Saigon, Dong Xoai was at a junction of roads linking points north and west. Among the military and civilian traffic from the west in the summer of 1965 were infiltrators fresh off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Political unrest in Saigon led the Viet Cong and their North …

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