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The Lost Battalion - Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue (Hardcover)
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The Lost Battalion - Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue (Hardcover)
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In 1968 in South Vietnam, a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to
charge a fortified North Vietnamese Army force 200 yards away over
an open field with no artillery or air support. The defenders had
every advantage. The Americans started moving across the field just
before noon, every man a target. By the time they reached the tree
line at the other side of the open field, nearly one half of the
400-man battalion was a casualty. Nine long, agonizing hours
afterwards, U.S. artillery units began support fire, although the
units remained desperately short of ammunition. The entrapped men
saw their fate: death or captivity. Help from headquarters was
neither offered nor available. The following night the battalion
commander decided to make a run for it. It was a gamble with high
stakes. But the battalion did make it through enemy lines to a
mountaintop where the NVA could not follow. When the Lost Battalion
finally escaped encirclement, after nine hours with no artillery or
air support, and 30 hours of fighting against an enemy that
outnumbered them three to one, the tragic episode disappeared from
official memory and relevant U.S. Army records - as if nothing had
happened. Krohn tells the whole story - and tells it with the words
of those present. That some of the testimony comes from those
responsible is remarkable.
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