Date Posted:21:28:51 03/29/11 Tue Author:R.CRUZ[USMC] (''HEART FELT''AND PROUD) Subject: Re: Operation Union 1967 In reply to:
Otto Lehrack
's message, "Operation Union 1967" on 14:50:35 09/10/05 Sat
I WAS THERE WITH INDIA COMPANY THIRD BATTALLION IST MARINES.WE FLEW IN ON A BALD REACTIONARY FORCE TO HELP MIKE CO.3/1.WHEN WE FLEW IN MIKE CO. WAS PINNED DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RICE PATTIE IN THE CENTER OF THE HAMLET.WE RECEIVED FIERCE INCOIMING FIRE WHILE LANDING IN THE MAIN RICE PATTIE NEXT TO MIKE CO.WE RAN AROUND THE VILLE WERE MIKE WAS PINNED DOWN,I GOT MY PLATOON ON LINE AND WE ASSAULTED THE VILLAGE WITH THE NVA REGT.ENTRENCHED, AND WITH FIERCE AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, AND SPIDER HOLES EVERY THREE FEET WITH GOOKS,DINKS POPPING UP AND SPRAYING US WITH AUTO FIRE.WE TOOK MANY CASUALTIES THAT NIGHT.WE GOT OVER RUN AND FOUGHT HAND TO HAND COMBAT AND WAS MORTERED ALL NIGHT.MY CO HAD TO HAVE OUR OWN 455'S FIRE DIRECTELY ON OUR C.P.WE LOST ALOT OF GOOD GUYS THAT NIGHT.[MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THERE SOULS].SEMPER-FI>Marine Vietnam vet an author wants to make contact
>with members of 3/1, especially Mike Company and the
>Battalion CP group that responded on 21 April 1967 to
>an emergency Bald Eagle to help out the beleagured
>F/2/1. Lt.Col DeAtley commanded the battalion but was
>hit upon landing in the LZ and medevaced. Mike
>Company landed with them and went to assistance of
>F/2/1. The company commander, Captain Wood, two of his
>platoon commanders, and 79 enlisted men were wounded
>within the next 24 hours. I am working on a new book
>on operations in the Que Son Valley in 1967 and would
>like to talk to Marines and corpsment who
>participated. You can check my legitimacy as an
>author and vet by putting my name into a search on
>Amazon.com. Please reply to ottolehrack@hotmail.com
>Semper fi
