Men Of War Vietnam Serial 17 |BEST|

The lieutenant's daughter was already in the hospital to be treated for her wounds. Her father went home to wait, as he usually did, for news. After a few days, the III Corps public information officer felt that someone at the regimental level needed to know about the platoon's actions. An intelligence officer went to Colonel Woodruff to get permission to brief his regimental commander. The colonel said he'd have to speak with the regimental S-2 first. Then he called, and got permission. With the colonel and his chief of intelligence listening in, the briefer put the lieutenant's actions into context. He indicated that the platoon leader had a chaplain working with him at night, and that he had been seen praying during the firefight. Then the colonel said that maybe the lieutenant's actions were indicative of a fact he never would have considered before: that the lieutenant was a Christian. He said he thought the lieutenant should be considered for the Medal of Honor. "He gives an excellent example of Christian leadership, not asking for his men's comfort or his own, but rather looking after them."

The first National Liberation Front (NLF) attempt at a full-scale attack against the U.S. Marine base at Da Nang was launched on 13 April 1965, from the largely sustainied coastal mountains. Although many of the original NLF fighters had been killed in U.S. bombing raids, replacement forces were being rushed into the area from South Vietnam. The newly arrived NLF troops were ill-disciplined, poorly trained, and inexperienced, having only recently been indoctrinated and armed.

A group of students go to the county seat. As they approach the courthouse, they hear a jet overhead. They had been warned of military flights. One of the students was a photographer and he had his camera. They seek cover in a shallow ditch and eventually sit up to watch.

Vietnam: The War that Changed The World As seen from the perspective of a sergeant in the US Army Infantry: an account of his experiences from becoming a rifleman through jungle fighting and counter-insurgency, up to the end of hostilities at the Paris Peace Talks in 1973, before the American withdrawal from Vietnam in October 1974. In this follow-up to Bloods on Rices, Logan and her associate Bulldog Rogers reflect back on their experiences in the Vietnam War. d2c66b5586