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August 24, 1968: After four years of widowhood, Albertha Hill was tying the knot today. But then the notification came. Her son, her only child, a platoon leader in Vietnam, had died in combat. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
July 4, 1968: Ronald Myron Cloud was a skytrooper with the 1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile). They rode helicopters into battle, jumping into LZs on search and destroy missions. But today the mission was to guard a fire support base. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
May 2, 1968: Dean Vasquez and his unit, the 2nd Battalion 4th Marines, aka, the Magnificent Bastards, were in their third day of battle. The odds didn’t look good. It was their 1,000 men against the North Vietnamese Army Division’s 8,000 or more men. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
April 19, 1968: Vietnam wasn’t Herb Hayashida’s first war. That had been World War II, when his Japanese-American family was incarcerated in an internment camp. Now he was a pilot of one of the machines that would become synonymous with Vietnam: the helicopter. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
