[music] [music] [music] Quick note before we jump in today. Uh we had some tech issues at the start of this uh…
Everything was fine. The patrol moved through the jungle with the confidence of men who owned this territory. Seven soldiers of the…
If you served in Vietnam, or if you know someone who did, the stories you heard probably didn’t include what might have…
The smell hits the medical officer before he even reaches the examination table. It is January 1945. Somewhere in the flatlands of…
The camp doctor stands in the medical barracks doorway and stares at something he cannot understand. 34 German prisoners of war are…
May 12th, 1946, Webster County, Iowa. John Patterson stood in his potato field at dawn, staring at rows of withered plants that…
He came to Vietnam with a clipboard, a doctrine, and a chest full of medals. Colonel Howard Lancaster, West Point graduate, decorated…
The night pressed down on the fuktwe jungle like a wet fist, heavy, humid, and suffocating. A layer of mist clung low…
It was mid 1 1968 deep in Fuokui province. A patrol of the Australian SAS moved like shadows beneath the canopy. Six…
August 18th, 1966, six Australian soldiers were silently watching through the jungle foliage as over 600 Vietkong fighters gathered below them, completely…