Operation Junction City, 1967, Vietnam War

[andinhosat]

os viadinhos do tio sam se fuderam!

"viva o socialismo"

[kaynie143]

you should have win the war... its all because of the media, its all the media's fault that's why the citizens of america started so many protest to stop the war..

[bullshit7128]

respect for thoses americans soldiers, fighting in vietnam was a tough experience, my oncle served in there in the french army during the first indochina war

[CharlieDoan]

Power like that but when USA pull out then south Vietnamese must surrender to VC without help of USA..What a shame ally. To American, you are better become enemy but not friend because Saigon put the TRUST on B-52 come back to help us so much but the TRUST not any more...US friend already betray Saigon and shake hand wth Peking already (ask Kissinger to see what he did)

South Korea, Phillippines,Malaysia, indonesia,Japan do not TRUST your ally American too much, lesson learn from Vietnam 1975.

[Litterboxer529]

My grandpa served in Operation Junction City, 173rd Airborne.

[loganqqqq1]

my grampa in this vid

[tatethompson1234]

My father served in the 198th Infantry. He did 3 tours, he earned 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze star. Very proud of him and also my 3 uncles who served, My uncle Charley was killed tho in 1968. Thanks for putting up the vid, its cool you never know one of those guys could be my pops

[mozart4707]

you try to read the book "the point man" by former US Navy SEALs Chief James Watson . Of all the books about Vietnam War that I have read, this one has the most blunt, straight to the point, frank accounts of the author's experience there. It is not the greatest but at least it is one of the greatest

[rubbersole79]

A heartfelt salute to all Vietnam Veterans who did their duty.

Thank you brothers.

[hidefsteve]

was 2nd. bn, 60th inf. 9th Inf. there? A co.....Long An Province? Looking for someone....Larry s. Jensen...KIA. 04/15/67...anybody know him? Thanks....

[gerriane22]

stop blaming other's, you can change the past, but you can change the meaning of past........ my grandpa died because of the testing of our war head's and our weapon in our country..... can you blame him? he follow orders from fat head general.... lets blame our own selves that we are not doing to stop this war....

[tonijocevski]

usa killed 3 millions poor vietnamese

500 000 kids were born with hard defects ( agent orange )



[tim666661]

Ho chi Minh, Vietnam's communist founder, is a disguting TRAITOR and MURDERER. He was a member of the Third Communist International established in 1919 by Lenin. He gave up Paracel & Spratly archipelagos with large oil resources to Red China. He even ordered to murder his own mistress named Nong thi Xuan when she threatened to disclose her sexual relationship with him since that would destroy his image as a "Father" of Vietnam who "sacrifices" his whole life for Vietnam revolution.

[deaddoc]

@tim666661 The reason that Ho Chi Minh went communist was because of France's refusal to allow them free elections after WW1. Ho Chi Minh was a young student in Paris and approached our President Wilson, begging him to make France do that. France and England were only interested in holding and enlarging their colonial holdings. Again, after WW2, Ho Chi Minh appealed to Truman who again supported France and supported a French war financially throughout Eisenhower's era. It's history.

[deaddoc]

@tim666661 Shock, shock, shock, Ho Chi Minh had a penis and a pair, and he used them! No other leader in the world who cared for his country ever had sex! As for the rest, they are lies and distortions. As I have written in other posts, the West had its chance to make Vietnam a democratic republic after WW1, but Ho Chi Minh was spurned by the greedy French. U.S supported France all the way to taking over in 1956. Neither France nor the U.S., nor China, nor Russia are there today.

[CheChe623]

um, perhaps you should talk w an actusl COMBAT VETERAN before u go blowin your mouth off about things you know nothing or little of???!!!

[TOMP66666]

If America had not involved the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)

Total Vietnamese democide by communists:1,040,000 (1975-87) by UNHCR

Executions: 100,000

Camp Deaths: 95,000

Forced Labor: 48,000

Democides in Cambodia: 460,000

Democides in Laos: 87,000

Vietnamese Boat People: 500,000 deaths.

[like0a0shadow]

Tomp6... That 'if' sucks. By preventing the internationally supervised free election to be held in 1956, and jumping in South Vietnam, America and coalitions triggered the war that led to the death of nearly 5 millions Vietnamese and 58 thousands American. That was the violation of Geneva Accord and the violation of the will to unite a nation. That opposed the choice of people in their own country and you think that was a good thing to do?

[chuckiejay]

@like0a0shadow Actually, the elections were prevented by Ho Chi Minh himself, who insisted that any government in Saigon MUST include Communist representatives, a provision sure to prove deadly to the sovereignty of South Vietnam, and grossly unfair since "Uncle Ho" didn't allow such diversity in his own government, which was ONLY Communist. America was not at fault for the failure of the proposed elections. Only Ho and Diem are responsible.

[like0a0shadow]

@chuckiejay That's not true. It's not Ho Chi Minh and his government but Diem's regime and the US government who backed up for them were responsible for the betrayal of the Accord. Afraid of being lost in the elections, they solely announced to cancel and brutally suppressed demonstrations those held to ask for it.

You can read "Vietnam War" in Wikipedia, or p.2 "Drawing the lines of conflict" in "A Vietnam War Reader" to know more.

Communist or not, it's People's Choice

[chuckiejay]

@like0a0shadow Actually, with a Communist the only "choice" that matters is their own. According to them, they are at fault for nothing; only the French, the Americans and the Saigon government are to blame for the sufferings of the Vietnamese people. Somehow the Hanoi government (that STARTED the war) and the Vietcong (who were armed, supplied, and directed by Hanoi) have no culpability. Let's face it--if the North hadn't started the war, there would have BEEN no war. Your biases are showing.

[deaddoc]

@chuckiejay The Pentagon papers have refuted all these myths about the North and Ho Chi Min starting the war. Our set up began during the Hoover Administration in 1946, and continued through the Eisenhower era, when we were financially supporting the French, who simply wanted to hang onto a colony out of pride and greed.  Ho Chi Min thought we would support him initially because they, like Americans had before, were simply trying to win their independence from an Imperial power.

[deaddoc]

@chuckiejay That may be, but it was their civil war to settle, not ours to direct or take sides in. The West created this war, that is a matter of history. I have a history book on WW1 by a respected English historian, Martin Gilbert that discusses how Ho Chi Minh entreated our President Wilson to persuade France to allow Vietnam independence. Wilson could not persuade either the French or English to grant autonomy to any colonies out of stupid greed and pride. Ho Chi Minh was driven away.

[deaddoc]

@like0a0shadow Some vets and others can't face the historical truth about Vietnam and our countries huge departure from our own principals. But it is a matter of history now. The Pentagon Papers proved the extent of the government deception of the American people and the willingness to continue on, even when it was plain that we couldn't win in any way that mattered. I know how they feel, I had friends who died there and later, after they came back. But a lie is a lie.

[deaddoc]

@TOMP66666 What a mind! Rationalize anything away! We killed nearly 5 million, so your list is not very impressive, wherever you got it. As I have posted elsewhere here, it is a matter of history that Ho Chi Minh sought to be a Democratic Republic in 1919, and again in 1946, but France and the U.S. did not allow it. The West caused him to go communist. If he was a little bitter, I can understand it.

[Fosterpimp]

sweet bass line and guitar solo.

[christof139]

primus606, Don't BS about such things Mr. Nimrod.

[primus606]

jesus christ i was there it was awfull

[grvc44]

primus606 how old are you in 1967? its now 2009 but you are still at 20 how is that? you know liars go to hell^_^

[Riyun72]

@grvc44 Lol think maybe he stumbled upon the fountain of youth while on patrol in the Nam. He was able to fight off charlie victor with his new found vitality. Amazing hey people try to say they were there wtf.

[JustAnotherYtuber]

@grvc44

No such thing as hell.

[grvc44]

@JustAnotherYtuber yeah thats true there is no such thing as hell even in the bible.

[JCDL1984]

actually, 1968 khe sahn(and outer base camps) was also horrible. problem was: placing marines in a base on the defense while being bombarded for weeks. marines are trained purposefully for offensive action. that is why casualties ensued.

[JCDL1984]

1967 was more bloodier than 1968/69. read as i do.

[jinxv]

crazy seppos

[beanie196]

Great video. I was there in person and the second of 13 Army/Marine operations!

[atwyatt]

Wow, how can you even see what you're shooting at in those surroundings?

[NismoHentai]

keen eye for Kong's usual uniform,but for the most part its pray and spray.alot of wasted ammo.

[13kleemanj]

true that

[b1naryd1g1t5]

@atwyatt

You couldn't most of the time. My father was there in 66-67 (1st Cav, 2/12) and he often told me that most of the time you couldn't see farther than the end of your rifle due to the foliage.

Of course a lot of it depended on where you were at. The south obviously had more jungle terrain than the north which had some mountainous regions. My father was usually in the south (Bong Son for instance).