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"Late in
the evening before the firefight, our recon platoon ran into an enemy
base camp and got pinned down. We pulled all the troops off the
perimeter of our base camp that night and sent them out to help, but
they could not reach them. Headquarters personnel, me included, manned
the bunkers until morning.
Early
in the morning we mobilized 3 companies of infantry, 2 attack forces
and 1 blocking force. The battalion executive officer (a Major) was in
the field calling in air strikes and artillery. The air strikes were
coming from Ton Son Nuht Air Base, and the artillery was coming from 8
or 16 inch guns off shore (Navy); 2 batteries of 8 inch guns nearby; 3
or 4 batteries of 105mm howitzers, 2 of those at our base camp; and
numerous 4 deuce mortars in the field.
Our company was to attack from one flank by going through a village and getting on river boats piloted by South Vietnamese..."
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