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Ben Het Veterans Talk of Shelling and Sacrifice
An Associated Press dispatch from Ben Het Vietnam describes how soldiers and their families endure daily shelling in the ranger camps. Captains Worthen Sparks and Truden detail Montagnard recruits, battlefield duties, and a three day May assault that left 167 enemy dead and three tanks destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Het
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Polei Kleng
Kontum
U.S
Jim Worthen
Phoenix
Clifford Irving
New York
Bob Sparks
Westminster
Colo
Sparks
Mark Truden
Medina
Ohio
Truhan