Kamis, 12 April 2018

Marines Caught in a Viet Cong Noose

Itching for a fight, a gung-ho rifle company stalks its quarry and finds itself surrounded and trapped by an unrelenting enemy. Wielding grease pencils, we eagerly marked our objectives and checkpoints on the clear plastic covering our ancient French intelligence maps. No matter that these decades-old maps identified terrain features that had long since vanished …

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