Marine Mascot Fifi Spurs Marines in Hastings Fight
In Operation Hastings Marine Echo Company 1st Regiment 2nd Battalion pursued a small Viet Cong force. A mortar burst near the unit, wounding two Marines while three enemies fell to Marine fire. Fifi the dog roamed beside the patrol as soldiers killed and improvised to press the ambush. The action included Lance Corporal Walter O. Jackson and Corporal Douglas F.E. Plant succeeding in repelling a decoy and securing the area.
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Santa Fe Spring
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Douglas FE. Plant
Little Falls
Minn
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San Diego
Costly Defeat by Viet Cong Told in Hai Yen Ambush
Four American special forces advisers were involved in a southern Viet Nam clash two weeks ago as government forces were ambushed near Hai Yen in Xuyen Province. Three advisers were killed, one wounded, with bodies recovered and a later allied villager burial cost noted. The Viet Cong used decoy tactics to repulse a two pronged government sweep.
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Viet Nam
Hai Yen
Xuyen
Tte
Point Blank Range
U. S
Clave
Diem
Air Force
U.S
South Viet Nam
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