Landing craft like this were in short supply in the Spring of 1944.
CREDIT: "French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldier
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Landing craft like this were in short supply in the Spring of 1944.
CREDIT: "French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldier
Landing craft like this were in short supply in the Spring of 1944.
CREDIT: "French Coast dead ahead--helmeted Yankee soldier
The Chu Lai videos are videos I have been going through. I also uploaded a dog handler video because another friend was a dog handler in Viet Nam. Scary job there.
I stumbled onto that video of the Battle of Ia Drang awhile back. Incredible video. Have watched it several times. Going to have to go watch the Mel Gibson movie again. Have also watched the several series of Vietnam videos on youtube, most more than once. Our guys definitely won the battles over there. Traitors Walter Cronkite, et al, lost the war for us.
Agree they won the battles and news media lost the war for us, Jim.
A year or two ago there was a Vietnamese woman I was chatting with while we were waiting in line at Trader Joe's. She told me that she was very grateful that American troops came to Viet Nam because she had her Father a little longer than if we hadn't been there. She wanted me and (everyone else at Trader Joe's within earshot) to hear her and to understand that American troops protected South Vietnamese.
She said that she and her entire family would have been executed by the VC because her Father worked for the South Vietnamese government. She said that the very day the American troops left, her Father was arrested and thrown in prison. She said that her family stayed instead of fleeing in hopes that somehow her father would be released. She said that her entire family waited for years and then finally her Father was released from prison, still alive but sadly he only lived a short time. She said that he had been tortured in prison.
She raised her voice a number of times saying that the South Vietnamese invited American troops in, and desperately needed them to protect them from the invading communists from the North.