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Staff. Sgt. Joe Musial, pinned down by North Vietnamese Army (NVA) fire, looks back at a soldier killed in the opening salve of the ambush. In the background is a seriously wounded soldier. The fight took place on the Bong Son plain of Vietnam's central lowlands on Feb. 14, 1967. Musial, known to all as Sgt. Rock, was part of D Co., 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.
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Navy corpsman Dave Boucher, (left) and Marine Staff Sgt. Ruben Santos treat Pvt. William Vizzerra, 21, Phoenix, Ariz., near the crest of Hill 881 N. The Hill was one of several strategically important hills surrounding Khe Sahn in western Quang Tri Province in Vietnam's I Corps. The fighting between the Marines and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars took place on April 30, 1967.
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An older sergeant in the 1st Cavalary Division, fatigued from a run across open field, ignored advice to stay down because of snipers and was shot in head. After being patched up, he awaits a Medevac. An officer is on the radio calling for the helicopter. The action took place in the central lowlands of Vietnam.
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Burning Village
On Feb. 20, 1967, troopers from the 1st Cavalry
Division burned a village on the Bong Son Plain
in central Vietnam after one of the soldiers was
killed by a booby trap. For more images, click
here.
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Hill 881
On April 30, 1967, Marines finally took Hill 881
near the demilitarized zone in Vietnam. At the time,
it was the war’s bloodiest battle. For more
images, click
here.
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Ambush
On Feb. 14, 1967, a squad from the 1st Cavalry Division
was ambushed on the Bong Son Plain. For more images,
click
here.
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Robert Hodierne, certain that the war in Vietnam
would blow over before he could finish college,  dropped
out in 1966 and went to Saigon to work as a freelance photographer, a stringer
in the terms of the day. He stayed until the summer of 1967. After finishing
college, he returned again in early 1969 and left in the spring of 1970.
He covered the war from the DMZ in the north to
the Mekong Delta in the south, from the Central
Highlands to the coastal plains. He photographed
soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Vietnamese
civilians caught up in the war. After Vietnam, Hodierne
gave up photography for reporting and editing.
A full resume can be seen at www.hodierne.com. |
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