The gunners were chained to their guns
[B][COLOR="#0000CD"]Bây giờ thì mời qúy vị xem một hồi ký của một cựu phi công trực thăng Hoa Kỳ từng tham chiến trong chiến tranh VN , viết vào ngày lễ cựu chiến binh Hoa Kỳ 2011 trênmột diễn đàn bày tỏ quan điểm chính trị .[/COLOR][/B]
[B]Bài viết:Memorial Day [/B]
May 30th, 2011
By Tom Carter
̣(Opinion Forum)
[URL="http://opinion-forum.com/index/2011/05/memorial-day-3/"]http://opinion-forum.com/index/2011/05/memorial-day-3/[/URL]
[I]Trích đoạn:
[SIZE=1]Early one morning at our rudimentary base in the remote central highlands of [B][SIZE=3][COLOR="#0000CD"]Vietnam[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B], we were all preparing to leave on a large scale combat assault mission. It involved virtually all of our aircraft and crews. We suddenly received an emergency mission order. A small Special Forces camp south of our base was under intense attack, and they desperately needed to medevac their wounded out of the camp and get ammunition supplies in. A team of attack helicopters was required to escort and defend the medevac and re-supply aircraft. My aircraft was supposed to go as the wingship of the team, but we were a few minutes less ready to take off than one of the other crews. So they went in our place. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]The tactical situation at the camp was a mess. Enemy troops surrounded it, and some of them were firing heavy machineguns from fighting holes. As we learned later[/SIZE], [B][COLOR="#B22222"]the gunners were chained to their guns[/COLOR][/B][SIZE=1] to limit their discretion in deciding whether to fight or not. As the medevac and resupply aircraft landed in the camp under heavy fire, our team of two attack helicopters flew low and fast around the camp perimeter, laying down suppressive fire with rockets, machine guns, and a rapid-fire grenade launcher. As they made a low turn over the dirt airstrip outside the camp perimeter, heavy fire literally tore apart the wingship. It crashed in flames, incinerating the bodies of the crew.[/SIZE][/I]
Another dead NVA had been chained to his machine gun, which in turn had been chained to a tree.
[B]Bài viết:A Field of Innocence[/B]
by Jack Estes
[URL="http://www.authorjackestes.com/pdfs/a-field-of-innocence-excerpt.pdf"]http://www.authorjackestes.com/pdfs/a-field-of-innocence-excerpt.pdf[/URL]
[I]Trích đoạn:
P.J., Buddy, Ski and I put on our packs and walked by the kid who froze as he groveled and cried like a child. There were several fighting holes and bunkers. Frags were tossed into the bunkers just to make sure, but we had done the damage the night before. There were eight dead, and with the two by the trail that Rat had wasted, ten all told. They had lost chunks of heads and arms and looked like broken dolls. Blood trails indicated more wounded or dead had been dragged off or maybe buried somewhere. Two women were also found covered with brush, dead from multiple wounds. [B][COLOR="#B22222"]Another dead NVA had been chained to his machine gun, which in turn had been chained to a tree[/COLOR][/B]. His option was to fight until death. A draftee, I chuckled to myself. These few jerks were left be-[/I]
A machine gun with three dead North Vietnamese soldiers ,chained to it .
[B]Bài viết:January,1968. PERSUASION[/B]
VietNam: Part III
Uncle Sam Know Best
by JOAN KENNEDY TAYlOR
[URL="http://mises.org/journals/persuasion/persuasion_1968_vol5no1.pdf"]http://mises.org/journals/persuasion/persuasion_1968_vol5no1.pdf[/URL]
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[I]Trích đoạn:
New fork time reported the finding of [B][COLOR="#B22222"]a machine gun with three dead North Vietnamese soldiers ,chained to it[/COLOR][/B]. It was a machine gun which only took one man to fire, and apparently the three men had been chained to it while their unit retreated before the American advance, so that as the first man was killed, the others would continue to operate ,the gun.[/I]
