For one of Vietnam's bloodiest battles, America brought out its
most successful soldiers. They were an all-volunteer paratrooper
unit, General William Westmoreland's `fire brigade', who were
dropped from the air wherever the fighting was heaviest. And during
the five months from June to November, 1967, they fought many of
the bloodiest battles of the entire, decade-long Vietnam War, at
the small mountain hamlet in the Central Highlands called Dak To.
From their very first engagement with the North Vietnamese Army,
when a whole company of paratroopers was nearly wiped out, to the
savage, climactic battle for Hill 875, here is a riveting,
hard-hitting account of how the Sky Soldiers plunged into some of
Southeast Asia's most forbidding terrain, against a professional
enemy who held no fear of the airborne. Denied food and water, cut
off from support, facing annihilation, the beleaguered fighters
finally faced down the North Vietnamese in a nightmarish
Thanksgiving Day confrontation. As a result, three NVA regiments,
crippled by the 173rd, were forced to sit out the crucial Tet
Offensive of January, 1968. The most eloquent testimony to the
courage of the Sky Soldiers came during the memorial service to
their dead comrades, when pairs of jump boots were arranged in neat
rows to represent each fallen paratrooper. It was a ceremony every
survivor of the 173rd Airborne and the battle for Dak To remembers
to this day. Edward F. Murphy is a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam
War. He is the author of a three-volume series on Medal of Honor
Recipients: Heroes of WWII, Korean War Heroes, and Vietnam Medal of
Honor Heroes, as well as two highly acclaimed Vietnam War
histories: Dak To and Semper Fi-Vietnam.
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