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A Day in Hell on the DMZ - The Rocket Attack on Firebase Charlie 2 in Vietnam, May 21, 1971 (Paperback)
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A Day in Hell on the DMZ - The Rocket Attack on Firebase Charlie 2 in Vietnam, May 21, 1971 (Paperback)
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At "zero dark thirty" on January 30, 1971, units of the U.S. Fifth
Mechanized Division left their firebases along the DMZ heading west
along Provincial Route 9. The mission, called Dewey Canyon II, was
to reopen the road from Khe Sahn Air Base to the Laotian border, in
support of a South Vietnamese invasion of Laos (doomed from the
start) to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Alpha Company of U.S. 61st
Infantry performed commendably in keeping Route 9 open, with just
one casualty killed by friendly fire. They returned to Firebase
Charlie-2 in April, exhausted but hopeful--the Fifth would be
leaving Vietnam in July. They patrolled the "western hills" through
May as rocket attacks fell each evening. On the 21st, a direct hit
on a bunker killed 30 of the 63 men inside--18 were from Alpha Co.
This is their story, as told to Specialist Lou Pepi by members of
his unit.
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