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- I spent 53 days in An Loc as an advisor to the 3rd Ranger group. Capt. Evergram and I were inserted into An Loc on the 7th of April 72. On 11 May 72 during the second attack, Capt. Evergram was wounded and medivac’d out of An loc. I remained at An Loc until 31 May 72, after being ordered to leave by Colonel Ulmer....
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- Today I pulled out my mementos of An Loc, together with all of your correspondence and spent two hours reliving my last and most memorable combat tour. I have the dirty, acetate covered 1:50,000 operations map that Bill Miller, Alan Borstaff, and I huddled over day and night, communicating with the outside and fighting the battle within our ever diminishing perimeter...
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- . . .And for a long time, I have been silent, all through the long unhealthy silence about the history of the Vietnam War in the United States. It is no accident that old warriors tend to be the most passionate advocates of peace. Anyone who has experienced battle understands war is a diabolical madness. And no one comes through that experience unchanged...
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- Mike Wheeler was a 20 year old Warrant Officer helicopter pilot. The first 6 months of his Vietnam tour were spent in I Corps with the 101st Airborne. At the start of the An Loc battle he was a co-pilot (or Peter-Pilot) on UH-1H helicopters serving with A Co 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB). By the end of the battle he was an aircraft commander.
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- The following account is based on my personal notes and memory of friendly and enemy activities on the 5th and 6th of June 1972, during the battle for An Loc, Republic of Vietnam. At this time, I was the Senior Regimental Advisor to the 33rd Regiment, 21st ARVN Division, and was the only U.S. Army advisor with this unit. The call sign that I used for my radio transmissions was "Constant."
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- We were on our way home and the gauges showed plenty of gas, but the front engine quit. I went for the tank selector, but all switches were in the proper position. I cycled the switches; we got the front engine started and begain to climb, just in case. We were not far from base, but we were not over friendly territory by any stretch. Just as things seemed to be settling down the rear engine quit...
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- During the Enemy Spring Invasion of 1972 when the NVA, with main objective to get as many troops into South Vietnam, before the Cease fire was signed in Paris, I participated in the largest battle of the Vietnam War, as the S-5 of the 3rd Brigade ( Separate ), Ist CAV DIV (Airmobile); the last U.S. Army Maneuver element remaining South of the Central Highlands.
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- In April 1972 as the war in southeast Asia was winding down the North Vietnamese army launched their spring offensive. This caused a major build up and reinforcement of air force, navy, and marine air from both the cones and pacific theater. In late 1971 and 72 we had been withdrawing forces from SE Asia. The C-130 wings at Clark, mactan, and naha had been deactivated and the airplanes returned to the states. The 374 taw at cck in Taiwan, with its four squadrons, was the only pacaf asset for c130 airlift in sea. At the start of the spring offensive the wing had 27 aircraft, 43 crews and 260 maintenance personnel deployed to Vietnam. Or in-country as we called it. During April we surged to 44 aircraft, 60 crews and...
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- On 25 May 1972, a U. S. Army sergeant, who was an adviser to a Vietnamese Ranger group was "med evac-ed" out of An Loc. On his arrival in Lai Khe treatment and transportation to the Third Field Hospital, he was queried on aspects of the fighting. When asked what he thought about the support received from the U.S. Air Force, he succinctly summed up what all the An Loc advisers felt: "…they’re good ol’boys!"...
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