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Subject: 1969 March 19

Author:
John Watson

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Date Posted: 13:21:31 05/07/00 Sun
In reply to: . 's message, "Re: 1969 March" on 09:08:31 04/27/00 Thu

> >Loring William Watson USMC AKA "Lorrie"
KIA 3/19/69
at Liberty Bridge
Gun 7
Battle started at 2:00am ended around daybreak.
This info comes from a letter I received from someone who was on Gun 3 that day. he finished a letter that "Lorrie" was writing me back in 69. I was 6 yrs old when he was killed. He tells me that 12 marines were killed that battle and so were 125 enemy.

Would like anyone who was there or knows info on this battle to email me.

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Pat Boyd
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Date Posted: 21:25:09 03/07/01 Wed

>> >Loring William Watson USMC AKA "Lorrie"
>KIA 3/19/69
>at Liberty Bridge
>Gun 7
>I was on gun 6 that night. I had only been in country for about 45 days. I was wounded in that battle. I only knew Lorrie for a short time and am not sure how he was killed. It was a hard fight and we lost a lot of good people. Our corpman was killed and got the medal of honor.Almost half of my crew was hurt. The sappers over ran gun 7 and we were able to stop them at gun 6. The sappers also hit on the oppsite side of the gun line and were stopped with a charge up the gun line led by our Co. No one ran that night. We held and fought them to a stand still even thouogh we were out numbered. I heard that we were hit with several companies and we fought them to a stand still. I heard this after I got out of the hospitol.
There was a good artical in "Viet Nam " magizne about the fight. James Web also describes the battle in his book, Fields of Fire.