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| Tango01 | 28 May 2021 9:52 p.m. PST |
… THE JUNGLE "A special operations team inserted into Laos for a covert operation. The men of ST Idaho, two Americans and four South Vietnamese indigenous troops, were tasked with locating enemy forces and activity in the A Shau Valley, close to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Tet Offensive earlier that year had caught U.S. forces by surprise, and commanders were constantly anxious to know the location of large enemy formations and their intentions. A snake-like tunnel and trail system that passed through nominally neutral Cambodia and Laos, the Ho Chi Minh Trail furnished North Vietnamese troops and Vietcong guerillas with materiel and supplies as they took the war to the South. The Trail was also ideal to move divisions of troops closer to the targets…"
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 Legion 4   | 29 May 2021 9:44 a.m. PST |
Sadly just another case of MIAs. As the article points out, 50 SF & 80 aviators are still MIA. And the Total number of MIAs in SE Asia IIRC still around 1800-1900. The jungle quickly take care of anyone not recovered. Even the ground is very acidic and the terrain full of fauna that will make a body disappear very quickly. Hopefully they are in "Valhalla" … may they RIP … |
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