Prowling along the coastal plains of Quang Tin province some 40 miles south of Danang, the 400 U.S. Marines found their prey just before noon one day last week: some 2,000 Communists of the North Vietnamese 2nd Division.
The enemy was so deeply dug into a valley floor that the Marines, despite reinforcements and withering air and artillery strikes, failed to dislodge the Reds in all-day fighting. So, in the dark of night, a Marine assault force stormed in, supported by AC-47 Dragonships. Next morning the sun rose on the bodies of 450 enemy dead littering the valley, at the...
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