Con Thien: The Hill of Angels

List of Illustrations and Maps

Photographs follow page 148 U.S. Army Duster and USMC amtrac, burning Navy corpsman attends to a wounded NVA soldier NVA ®amethrower held by Major E. H. Boyd Marine engineers string barbed wire Marines search a destroyed NVA bunker Marines load aboard CH-46 helicopters Corporal Jim “Dead-eye” Holston Marines move forward to recover casualties Marines returning from DMZ battle Catholic church, vicinity of Con Thien Ken “Piggy” Bores with NVA skull Marine sniper Dalton Gunderson Soldier hooking up cargo net to resupply helicopter Soldier looks over a bunker Marine ammo crate and sandbag bunker Illustrations Marines huddle in a trench at Con Thien Artillerymen loading a howitzer Soldier reaches for ®ak jacket Author with tank platoon Maps Southeast Asia xiii Northern Quang Tri Province xxi Leatherneck Square xxii Con Thien Area Battles, 1966–68 xxiii 2/9 Operation King¤sher Ambush, July 29, 1967 138 Con Thien, Fall 1967 166 3/26 Battle at Nui Ho Khe, September 10, 1967 183 2/4 Battle at Phu Oc, September 21, 1967 227 2/4 Battle of Bastard’s Bridge, October 14, 1967 260 xii Illustrations Southeast Asia ...