Because he did not have a will, the remaining members of the Delta Company arranged for his funeral. Walsh died three months after reconnecting with Thoms. Thoms sent Walsh a Bible and called regularly to discuss the verses. I want you to lead me through this." Thoms enlisted the remaining members of the Delta Company to support Walsh in his final days as he was estranged from his family. "You led me through that and I made it," said Walsh, who revealed he was dying of cancer.
Decades later, he tracked down his platoon commander at Hue, Staff Sgt. Pfc.Jim Walsh was shot through both legs during the assault on the Dong Ba Tower, but managed to survive his injuries. "If there's anything close to hell, it had to be Hue." Richard Hill reflect on the anguish felt from receiving last rites before going off to battle. McGonigal, and his "wild man" pursuit to administer last rites to fallen Marines. Bob Thoms describe Catholic chaplain, Maj. But by 1968, as American casualties continued to mount, public opinion against the war grew stronger. government had justified the war as essential to halting the spread of communism in Asia. Tet was a turning point in the American public's support of the war. Bob Thompson was chilled to see streets lined with dead bodies and burned-out vehicles as his troops made their way to the U.S.
Told by his commanders the mission was a "mop-up" that would take just a few days, Maj. forces had greatly underestimated the enemy's numbers and resolve. "He told us, he said, 'I don't know if you guys, some of you will make it to Sunday' and then he came out to where we were and said, 'I'd like to give you guys last rites.'" Listen to Harrington reflect on the initial assault he commanded to take the Dong Ba Tower. Rocket and mortar fire cratered the ground, bullets found their targets and six Marines were killed. Later that day, Harrington's men launched their assault. North Vietnamese army soldiers crouched in sniper foxholes within the tower and hid behind rubble to shoot U.S. The strategy was straightforward: Charge the tower, kill the remaining enemy soldiers and hold it. forces as it would give them a strategic vantage point within the city. One of the city's highest points, the tower was the main military objective for U.S. Myron Harrington - commander of Delta Company - and his men regrouped at Dong Ba Tower. Myron Harrington, Delta Company commanderīy mid-afternoon of Feb. The stench of death was there all the time." This book fully describes how our Marine Corps tankers have risen to the occasion."It was just absolutely utter devastation, burned out trucks and bodies on the road. Our fights against Iraq in 1991 and in the post-9/11 years have seen further wars that demanded that unique combination of courage, tenacity, professionalism, and versatility that makes a Marine no better friend, and no worse enemy.
The tankers even added a new trick to their repertoire-long-range surveillance. It’s been a war in which the tanks repeatedly provided the outnumbered infantry with precise and decisive firepower.
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It has been a maddening war of clearing roads, escorting convoys, endless sweep operations to locate and destroy insurgent strongholds, protecting voting sites for free elections, and recapturing and rebuilding urban centers. It was a familiar kind of war against a fanatical foe who brutalized civilians, planted sophisticated roadside bombs, and seized control of entire cities. In America’s longest continual conflict, armored Marines became entangled in further guerilla war, this time amid the broiling deserts, ancient cities, and rich farmlands of Iraq, and in the high, bleak wastes of Afghanistan. Yet in two wars with Iraq, the tankers, as well as the crews of the new Light Armored Vehicles, quickly found themselves in a familiar role-battering through some of the strongest defenses in the world by frontal assault, fighting their way through towns and cities. The emphasis would be not on brutal battles of attrition, but on paralyzing the enemy by rapid maneuver and overwhelming but judicious use of firepower. The tank, the very symbol of power and violence, would play a key role in a new concept of mobile warfare, not seen since the dashes of World War II. In the aftermath of Vietnam a new generation of Marines was determined to wage a smarter kind of war.
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