Talk:Camp Eagle (Vietnam)/@comment-67.158.47.205-20171022183835

My best friend was hospitalized with Malaria at Camp Eagle on the night of may 21/22 1968. He told me that sappers fought their may into the 2/502 side of the base and attacked bunkers with satchel charges. he told  me that all hell broke loose, and no one in the hostial ward had so much as a pop gun, and the sappers were right outside the tent! He said the incoming rockets and 101st arty fire (beehive rounds fired st the attackers) was deafening. The next moring he said there at least a dozen dead sappers right outside the tent (apparently killed by the arty men). The sappers wore red berrets and seemd taller than the typical Vietnamese (he said), and the runors were that at least some of the enemy attackers were ethnic Chinense.

Incredible story of an incredible war for the 101st (and alll Amercian troops)