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I was seeing hootches CS'd to drive
people out, and when the people were driven out, and they were naturally
running away, who wants to hang around and breathe the CS for an hour?
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They run out of the hootch and are
killed.
There's a large river that's west of
Saigon that runs roughly north and south.
I can't remember the name of it at the
moment.
But beyond this river there is
absolutely nothing left.
There were hundreds and hundreds of
villages marked on the maps that I had with me, all kinds of names on
the map.
But you get over in that area and there
is nothing there at all. It's all been wiped out long ago.
On the first operation that I was on in
country, we went into a village called "Five Fingers." And it was
a typical cordon and search, which is you surround a village and then
you sweep through it. And hopefully when you're sweeping, if
anybody is running from you, they're going to run into, of course, the
surrounding troops on the other side, and then they get wiped out.
But we received fire as we walked into the village, and we took no
casualties. We did end up with a body count.
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