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Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in Vietnam
on May 16, 2022

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The Battle of Dai Do

Home > Veterans' Voices: Minnesota in Vietnam > The Battle of Dai Do

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.

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