During Tet, Camp Carroll artillerymen were thrust into the chaos and carnage of an infantryman’s war

Ominous reports were coming in to the Marines at Camp Carroll during early January 1968 about major North Vietnamese Army infiltration along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Indeed, enemy sappers had been testing Camp Carroll’s perimeter. Claymore mines had been tampered with and turned backwards toward the Marine fighting positions along the perimeter defense. Kilo …

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