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neverbee
02-01-2011, 01:33 AM
Battle of Ong Thanh, South Vietnam, Oct 17th 1967.

Battle reports were declassified in 1991, a ferocious fight that shocked the U.S citizen 16 years after the end of Vietnam war.
On Oct. 17th, 1967, Alpha and Delta companies of the 2-28-1 Inf. Division engaged in one of the Vietnam War´s most ferocious fights. Claiming 64 Americans lives lost, the battle report was not declassified until 1991.

footage on this incident :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhKbBrRHHo

preview
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/811/ccccccd.jpg

neverbee
02-01-2011, 01:34 AM
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/DO_NO_HARM/1st%2028th%20DAILY%20JOURNALS/1967-10-07ONGTHANBATTLEMAP.jpg

jamieooh
02-12-2011, 07:52 PM
neverbee the video has been removed. do you happen to have a copy of it?

neverbee
02-14-2011, 01:02 AM
neverbee the video has been removed. do you happen to have a copy of it?

Yes, sir


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhKbBrRHHo

jamieooh
02-14-2011, 09:23 PM
Thanks Neverbee
I'm kind of speechless thou.

BRAVO JULIET
02-16-2011, 05:43 PM
Really fucking intense and moving.