Posted on 02/20/2019 11:16:27 AM PST by Red Badger
A celebrated book and a major museum exhibition revealed the harrowing tale behind the image of a wounded Marine. Their version was wrong.
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The fighting in Hue City, Vietnam, was as intense and confusing as anything the Marines there had ever seen. It was mid-February 1968, and American and South Vietnamese forces were desperately trying to counter a surprise onslaught that became known as the Tet offensive. First Battalion, Fifth Marines had breached the city’s historic Citadel. Radio communications were out. From front-line positions, Marines ran back a block or two to give updates to commanding officers and to receive orders. Many of them had already been wounded or killed. As more casualties accumulated, Marines in Charlie Company’s Third Platoon helped lift a gravely wounded and unconscious infantryman onto the front of a tank; the man was sprawled on a wooden door that served as a stretcher. No more than a few blocks away, through streets littered with rubble and alive with gunfire, the tank stopped to pick up three Marines who had been injured by a mortar blast. One man’s face was swathed in bandages. He was helped aboard and situated near the tank’s back end. A photographer, John Olson, approached and began to document the moment. His photo of the unconscious Marine lying on the tank surrounded by his wounded brothers-in-arms now stands among the iconic images of the Vietnam War. Some of Olson’s photos from the battle were included in a photo essay in Life magazine on March 8, 1968. The picture of the wounded Marine was the largest photo in the feature, published as a two-page spread. Both painterly and heart-wrenching, it was a raw a
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That photo is from the Cambodia campaign in 72
There was no Cambodia campaign in 1972.
John Kerry? IZZAT you?.................
Back when a 5 pack of smokes were in the ration package... in this case Chesterfields.
Engineering always had a brew going. Usually under the mains where it was warm and cozy.
I’m not Kerry and test there was an incursion into Cambodia. We bombed the shite out of it. Ask Nixon. Oh wait he’s dead.
Too much chopper time for me. I should have double checked. My bad.
I’m not Kerry and test there was an incursion into Cambodia. We bombed the shite out of it. Ask Nixon. Oh wait he’s dead.
Too much chopper time for me. I should have double checked. My bad.
It was 1970....................
It was 1970....................
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Correctamundo.
It’s seared in .......somewhere..................
Hue was NOT the battle that turned the tide against the U.S. military in Vietnam.
It was the media’s telling of Hue, and sometimes lying sometimes just getting completely wrong just what Hue meant miliarily. Yes, it was the broadest attack hitherto ever seen by North Vietnam, creating a hue battelfield and loads of killed and wounded. But, at the end of the day, in spite of the damages inflicted on Hue during the battle, it was a large military defeat for the North.
Then, through the American Left and their links in the U.S. media, they manufactured victory for North Vietnam from the jaws of its defeat, convincing the American public “they could not win”. It was a lie.
Warrior humor ... keeps men going.
John Kerry single handedly lost the Vietnam War with his lies before Congress.
His FAKE TESTIMONY convinced the North Vietnamese that they could win if they just hung in for more time....................
That lying sonofabitch Walter Cronkite, for example ...
Cambodia was from 1 May and 30 June 1970.
So you’re saying you were triggered by a simple joke. Calm down. He’s not besmirching your buddies’ names, he’s just making a joke, for God’s sake.
HIV tests have been SOP for a long time now, even before homosexuals were allowed to serve openly.
100% correct
Truth be known, the 199th (Redcatchers)did a minor foray over the border in spring 1968 from Tay Ninh province to blow up a major NVA base camp. The batallion CO even flew in to check it out before we lit the fuzes. All very Hush-hush ya know.
Very Simple as are your remarks
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