All,
It's 29 Sept 1968, four days after the squad got its butt whooped IVO Ap Bac 14. This morning the squad (minus) is on patrol to the northeast of Ap Bac; two days ago battalion sent a company-strength patrol into Ap Bac and found no trace of the enemy. Today the squad is out looking to see where they may have gone…
All of 1st Fireteam is still out, except Pvt Greenwood, who is humping the M-60. All of 2nd Fireteam is present. The squad is following a trail southwest, when the point man signals 'freeze.'
Overview, north is up. US squad is at top left on either side of the trail, VC are at bottom right, diddy-bopping down the trail like it's cool.
The squad, consisting of seven men.
The VC, with two two-man porter teams, an LMG, and a rifleman (just visible under the tree at top right).
The hasty ambush is set, and Greenwood wreaks havoc with his M-60.
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More to come.
V/R,
Jack
