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Subject: Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS

Author:
Stanley E. Hamby

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Date Posted: 01:54:39 05/01/00 Mon
In reply to: . 's message, "Re: 1969 CHRISTMAS" on 09:11:50 04/27/00 Thu

Christmas '69' there were 5 guys killed by VC women on the road between FSB Patton and TrungLap, with one of our own Claymores. All they were doing is sweeping the road for mines. I pray for their families, but can't remember who they were?

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Ben Jones
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Date Posted: 12:08:31 09/26/00 Tue

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the operation was to clear the road to the village of Trung Lap so the acting S-5 (me) could bring the chaplain and others to the village to give Christmas presents to the families of the Vietnamese military family members (soap, clothes, etc). By the way, this was during a declared cease fire.
As the lead platton closed into the front gates, a claymore was set off killing several and wounding others. The claymore was not to my knowledge one of ours - but a Chicom claymore.
I called for medevac and the responding helicopter was one being used by reporters. I could not believe it but the reporters were more interested in the fact the girls responsible were being questioned "roughly" by the Vietnamese soldiers who had caught them. They did not seem interested in the the fact U.S. soldiers were laying on the ground dead and wounded. I went bonkers. Their chopper was "borrowed" to dust off the wounded along with a regular dustoff that arrived a short time later.
I am sorry, but I do not know the names of the soldiers, in that I had only been with the Battalion for several days prior to the incident. One week later I assumed command of Delta company, 2/14th Infantry, 25th Division.