[2banana]

Wow.

“Sadly, this final push also resulted in one of the worst “friendly fire” incidents in Vietnam, when a Marine Corp fighter bomber accidentally dropped a 500-pound bomb near the American perimeter, killing 42 men and injuring another...”

[budj]

"...Tuy Ho on the south-central coast..."

I'm pretty sure it was Tuy Hoa, pronounced "Tooey Wah". My Battalion HQ was there. A good friend of mine was in the 173rd; it was a bitch.

[epluribus_2]

Over the next three-plus weeks, the 173rd would fight up and down the hill, with heavy fighting following on November 13, with B Company sustaining especially heavy casualties.

I respect the men who have their lives to fight communism but do not respect the politicians and industrial forces that dragged this war out for a decade when the mightiest country in the history of the world could have ended this in a week. Or better yet not jumped in at all and used other methods to control and inhibit the north.

Now they fill Home Depot, Target, Walmart with crappy, cheap furniture and goods while North Carolina industries are memories.

[Psalm 73]

"376...killed or listed as missing-presumed dead and another 1,441 were wounded"

Yikes, that's 1,817 casualties out of, what, 4,000 in a brigade? Nearly 50%? That's just crazy.