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Marines launch Operation Starlite - Aug 18, 1965 - HISTORY.com
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After a deserter from the First Vietcong Regiment had revealed that an attack was imminent against the U.S. base at Chu Lai, the Marines launch Operation Starlite in the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province.
In this, the first major U.S. ground battle of the Vietnam War, 5,500 Marines destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold, scoring a resounding victory. During the operation, which lasted six days, ground forces, artillery from Chu Lai, close air support, and naval gunfire combined to kill nearly 700 Vietcong soldiers. U.S. losses included 45 Marines dead and more than 200 wounded.
In this, the first major U.S. ground battle of the Vietnam War, 5,500 Marines destroyed a Viet Cong stronghold, scoring a resounding victory. During the operation, which lasted six days, ground forces, artillery from Chu Lai, close air support, and naval gunfire combined to kill nearly 700 Vietcong soldiers. U.S. losses included 45 Marines dead and more than 200 wounded.
Marines launch Operation Starlite - Aug 18, 1965 - HISTORY.com
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Great read this morning over coffee- morning Mark
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PO3 Brad Smith Lt Col Scott ShuttleworthSGT Gregory Lawritson SGT Jim Arnold SSgt Brian BrakkeCMSgt (Join to see) LTC (Join to see) MSG Frederick Otero SFC Pete Kain SSG David Andrews SCPO Morris Ramsey PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SGT (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. LTC Greg Henning PO2 Rick Fox SGT John " Mac " McConnell Lt Col Charlie Brown Sgt Albert Castro
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So many lives lost on both sides SP5 Mark Kuzinski. I met a third generation Vietnamese recently and asked about his family history here in the US. He said his grandparents were rescued by American soldiers during that whole conflict and they were only a few from onenof the small villages to have survived. :(
They were so greatful to the soldiers he said, that as soon as they could they came to America. I asked him if he had ever gone back to visit and he said they had nothing to go back to. That all of his known Family were murdered. But that they had a lot of family out here now because of all of their aunts and uncles. :) I always heard the soldiers side, but this was my first time hearing the side of a Vietnamese. kindnof gives you another perspective on the whole thing.
They were so greatful to the soldiers he said, that as soon as they could they came to America. I asked him if he had ever gone back to visit and he said they had nothing to go back to. That all of his known Family were murdered. But that they had a lot of family out here now because of all of their aunts and uncles. :) I always heard the soldiers side, but this was my first time hearing the side of a Vietnamese. kindnof gives you another perspective on the whole thing.
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