Index
Index 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Artillery Regiment, 17, 67 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, 90 3d Battalion, 3d Marine Infantry Regiment (3/3), 17, 23, 106 3d Battalion, 4th Marines, 48 3d Marine Amphibious Force, 247 3d Marine Division, 15, 17 12th Marines, 16, 17, 67 40mm antiaircraft gun (twin forties ), 55, 62 75mm Pack Howitzer, 178 81mm mortars, 63 105mm towed battery, 20–21 122mm rockets, 66, 123 130mm guns, 69 140mm rockets, 66 175mm battery, 22 175mm Long Toms, 137 804th NVA Regiment, 74 Abrahms, General, 249 adjusting ¤re, 38, 53 aiming stakes, 222, 223 airburst, 263 Air Cavalry, 195, 196, 200, 263 air strike, 53 Alpha Battery, 205, 215, 224 ambushes, 60–81; August 21, 1967, on the road to Ca Lu, 62–64; between the Rockpile and Ca Lu, 79; Sept. 7, 1967, on the road to Ca Lu, 70–76 ambush patrol, 50–51 American public: growing skepticism about war, 112, 154–55; opinion of Vietnam War, 86–87; support of World War II, 2 American soldier, image of, 9 ammo, 263 ammo humper, 263 Anderson, Lieutenant John, 35, 46; death of, 55–56 antitank rounds, 200, 209 antiwar movement, 86; effect on troops, 57–58; student protests, 1, 152 Arc Light, 114–15 Arizona memorial, 173 Army, luxury of living quarters, 246 Army Air Cavalry, 194 Army Special Forces, 200 artillery, role in Khe Sanh, 208 artillery attacks, at C2 Bridge, 102 artillery liaison of¤cer, 30, 66 artillery spotting plane, 74 attrition, game of, 87, 119, 154 B-52s, 202, 250 B-52 bomb crater, 41 B-52 strike, 114–15 Ba Long valley, 187 bamboo viper, 52 Bangkok, 164 base camps, 16, 263 battalion, 263 battalion operations bunker, 61 battery, 263 BC scope, 225 Bebee, Corporal Rayford R.: at C-2 Bridge, 100, 102, 105, 118; Con Thien offensive, 137; pro¤le of, 31–32; status among the infantry , 33 beehive, 21, 200, 209, 233, 234, 263 bee marauding incident, 162–63 beer ration, 161, 164 “Best Damn Battery in Vietnam,” 161, 192 birds, of Vietnam, 40 birds (aircraft), 263 Blanchard, Ross, 9–10, 12, 15, 257 body counts, 154, 155, 245 Bo Ho Su, 17 bonding, in a common cause, 56–57 booby trap, 19 bracketed, 263 Bravo Battery, 205, 208 Brennan, Walter, 9–10 Bronze Star, 238 Bronze Star with Combat V, 258 Brown, Cathy, 172 Brown, Jody, 4, 5, 172, 173, 174, 257; on the veranda of the Illikia Hotel in Hawaii during R&R, photo, 131 Brown, Lieutenant Jim: complex position going into LZ Torch, 215– 16; departure from DMZ, 254; as executive of¤cer, giving ¤ring directions to guns during a live ¤re mission, photo, 129; as executive of¤cer and second in command at Camp Carroll, 156–65; farewell to C battery at Ca Lu, 253–54; in front of the operations bunker, photo, 132; on the gun line at the second position in Ca Lu, photo, 130; introspection, 207–8; as new CO of Charlie Battery, 196–200; photo taken at arrival at Camp Carroll, 127; presented with Silver Star at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, photo, 134; unloading the dead and wounded, 219; using the battery commander’s scope at Ca Lu, photo, 131; on the veranda of the Ilikai Hotel in Hawaii during R&R, photo, 131 bunkers: at Ca Lu, 191; at Con Thien, 90, 153, 191; at Khe Sanh, 153; of NVA, 123 C-2 Bridge, 90, 91, 97–126; Arc Light, 114–15; bunkers, 104; casualties, 103, 110–11, 116; continuing strength of NVA, 114; daytime artillery attacks, 102, 107; FO teams, 105, 109; “friendly ¤re” casualties, 101, 110– 268 INDEX 11; latrines, 108; listening posts, 104; map of, 96; massive NVA offensive on, 94; memorial services , 116–17; perimeter protective ¤res, 99–100; sniper ¤re, 107; supply truck unloading, 103; vulnerability to any kind of attack , 152 Ca Lu, 17, 18, 183, 185–200, 187; 122mm rocket hit on bunker, 192–93; active combat environment , 192; bunkers, 191; convoy to, 79, 185–86; key location on the DMZ, 33–34; mortar attacks, 189; strategic position, 184; vulnerability to any kind of attack, 152 Cam Lo, 17, 18, 81; refugee camp, 18, 77, 84 Camp Carroll, 17, 151–65, 152; arrival at, 20–21; bee marauding incident, 161–63; FDC personnel for all plotting, 159; outstanding defensive location, 160; reduced chance of ground attack, 152; return to from Con Thien, 151, 155; and Tet offensive, 177–84; water supply, 33 Camp Hansen, 12 Camp Lejuene, 158...
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