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WAR WITHOUT HEROES - David Douglas Duncan
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War Without Heroes. [book jacket] New York, and Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, 1970.
(...Năm 1972 , ba tôi được một quân nhân Hoa Kỳ làm việc ở Trung Tâm Hành Quân Không Trợ IV tặng vài quyển sách , trong đó có WAR WITHOUT HEROES ...
Hôm qua tình cờ thấy lại trên Net , giới thiệu với cả nhà CLL để biết đôi chút hình ảnh về những gì quân đội HK đã trải qua trong cuộc chiến tại VN qua ống kính của phóng viên chiến trường kỳ cựu David Douglas Duncan..
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Phóng viên David Douglas Duncan tại Cồn Tiên năm 67
"Hanoi, Indochina. French Military Cemetery. 22 May, 1953." War Without Heroes, p. 3.
In the estuary of the Cửa Việt River, Marines from the 3rd Battalion Landing Team, deployed from the USS Tripoli, prepare to land just five miles south of the DMZ on the first day of Operation Fortress Sentry, September 17th, 1967.
[Marines aboard an amphibious assault ship in the estuary of the Cửa Việt River.] "September 17 [1967]--D-Day--[the first day of Operation Fortress Sentry]--would probably be remembered by the Marines because it ran afoul of the first great autumnal monsoon storm of the year. Most of the men just bent their head against the wind and rain, and waited . . . " War Without Heroes, p. 12.
A couple of Vietnamese net fishermen stoically watched the [Marines landing on Red Beach, while] standing in tidal pools along the north bank of the Cửa Việt River, five miles south of the DMZ and Bến Hải River (dividing South from North Viet-Nam). [September 17th, 1967.]" War Without Heroes, p. 17.
"Captain Reginald G. Ponsford III, commanding officer of Foxtrot Company, 2/3 Marines, [leads] the point assault force to the DMZ . . .. [Operation Fortress Sentry, Cửa Việt estuary, September 1967.]" War Without Heroes, p. 19.
From the advancing column of earthworks, Captain Reginald G. Ponsford III, tries by radio to direct counterbattery fire, while the other Marines aboard lie still, flattening themselves and waiting. Red Beach, Cửa Việt, September 1967. The white streaks through the image are the result of static electricity inside the camera caused by the monsoon storm and the enemy air-bursts.
"Once, in peacetime . . . the cratered knoll rising only about five hundred feet above the gently undulating DMZ countryside to the north had been known to local missionaries as 'The Hill of Angels' . . . Cồn Tiên . . . [September/October 1967.]" War Without Heroes, p. 59.
"Giant helicopters made the run to Cồn Tiên, hauling vast netloads of ammunition, rations, drinking water, medical supplies and sometimes cold milk, fresh fruit and even real ice cream from the supporting base at Đông Hà, on the outside. The chopper pilots hovered ever lower, to drop for an instant--so those cocoons [of plastic, encasing deceased Marines] could be rushed aboard--then they were gone just as they had arrived, flying barely above the earth trying to evade detection by observers for gunners north of the DMZ. [September/October 1967.]" War Without Heroes, p. 65.
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