THE BATTLE OF KHE SANH

THE BATTLE OF KHE SANH - Department of Defense - PIN 20051 - PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALL THE SERVICES, THIS FILM RECOUNTS THE VICTORY OF AMERICAN AND ALLIED FORCES IN THIS MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE BATTLE OF THE VIETNAM WAR. BEGINS BY HIGHLIGHTING THE MILITARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF KHE SANH. SHOWS TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC AIR POWER SUPPORTING GROUND FORCES. CITES TEAMWORK BETWEEN AIR AND GROUND FORCES WHICH SUCCESSFULLY REPELLED MASSIVE ENEMY ATTACKS. DEPICTS AIRLIFTING OF SUPPLIES AND MEDICAL EVACUATION OF CASUALTIES.

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[hauntzd]

The NVA learned about Marines at Khe Sanh!

[twosure94]

@raider808100

My point was: that the NVA used Khe Sanh as a diversion for their Tet Offensive... but nowhere in this documentary is that ever mentionned !

In my opinion: if the U.S. had developed a network of snipers in southern laos, they could have shut-down the Ho Chi Minh Trail ... but instead they wasted most of their money on expensive and ineffective air-interdictions operations.

[ABVNRML2U]

Someone should make a Movie on Khe Sanh.

[akosigaru]

i think the americans are not good when it comes in jungle warfare jungle is very much different in urban warfare only asian such as myself have affinity in jungle warfare i an a vietcong soldier

[trung14588]

@twosure94 when i said "brave enough" I think you know what wrong in this war. Why is VC braver than G.I in a forest? Because all of them think the forest is belong to them so do the country. Their belief seem like a religion. So i think US army did everything they could, they just didn't have a real reason for the war.

[aaahhhhaaaahhhh]

One of the most powerful experience in any war and in most tragedies, The Natural Brotherhood between men!.

[Kerleyyy]

@hauntzd The Marines still lost the war however...

[MrKaiser408]

@troytblevins To bad the vietnam war started in the late 50s so Kennedy didn't start it

[njunhung]

@TheLoyalOfficer it makes sense. The US jumped into Indochina to save the French. Then got stuck in it. Otherwise , US should have recognized Vietnam Independence in 1945, Ho Chi Minh couldn't have relied so much on the Soviet bloc to gain independence.

[hauntzd]

I was recalled to the Btry from 1/4 the 1st week of July, 1968. G/3/12 was then at Khe Sanh. The next day we formed a convoy and embarked for Ca Lu on Route 9. Our convoy cleared the ridge just east of Khe Sanh when the first round hit over us in the river. Co Roc's 2nd round hit the ridge above Route 9. The 3rd round went into the river. The convoy stopped and the troups danced on the hwy because Co Roc could not hit us. Too bad for Co Roc.

[twosure94]

@trung14588

I agree with you ... not an easy task. But I think that would have turn the tide !

What do you think the U.S. should have done to win the war ?

[trung14588]

@twosure94 are you brave enough to become a sniper in Laos forest?