00:00 -

00:01 - Well we were on a search and

00:02 - destroy mission against the

00:05 - North Vietnamese army to go into

00:08 - the DMZ that demilitarized zone

00:11 - and clear out the North

00:13 - Vietnamese Army and our unit was

00:16 - a lead unit.

00:18 - As a matter of fact the squad

00:20 - that I was in was the lead squad

00:22 - of the platoon and the company

00:26 - and the battalion that we were

00:27 - part of.

00:28 - I mean it was a huge operation.

00:30 - In May the latter part of May of

00:33 - 1967.

00:35 - And just so happened one day we

00:39 - were a sniper kept pinning down

00:42 - our unit our platoon.

00:45 - And the point person in our

00:47 - squad saw this sniper and went

00:52 - after the sniper.

00:54 - Obviously a squad of 12 Marines

00:58 - and ultimately the platoon

01:01 - followed our marine our point

01:05 - person and unfortunately we were

01:09 - led into an ambush.

01:12 - And as a result of that ambush

01:15 - seven of the 12 Marines in my

01:16 - squad died.

01:17 - I was wounded a couple other

01:20 - people were seriously wounded.