I saw
firsthand just how bad the 173rd got chewed up at Dak To in Nov. and Dec. 1967.
I was in an orthopedic ward recovering from surgery on both my legs at a Tokyo, Japan Army Hospital when sometime around the 14th or 15th of November 1967 the ward started to fill up with wounded troopers from the 173rd. The ward was designed to house 42 beds........by the middle of December they had more than 75 beds full and more on the way! More than half of these were from the 173rd at the battle of Dak To. They really took a beating. Many, many amputees in those few weeks. Got to meet some real, true blue, young American heros' during that time. I'll never forget them.
God bless them all.......and their brothers that didn't make it to that hospital as well!
Interesting observation.............8 or the 10 "Deadliest Battles" occurred before 1968..........5 in 1967 alone?
Looks like 67, 68 and 69 were some bad ass times over there.
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Gimpy
"MUD GRUNT/RIVERINE"
"I ain't no fortunate son"--CCR
"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war..........We have felt - we still feel - the passion of life to its top.........In our youth our hearts were touched with fire"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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11-22-2004, 06:13 PM
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