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We'd avoid going into a village
if we thought it might be VC infected, or something like this.
We'd send in Willy Peter mortars -- 60
mm. -- and this would burn up the hootches, that explode ...
throwing white phosphorus on different hootches in the village, start the hootches burning and also kill
people.
It's probably one of the worst
sights I've ever seen is a person that's been burned by Willy Peter, because it doesn't stop.
It just burns completely through your body.
The only way you can end this burning
is to cut off the air, which is very difficult.
JOSEPH BANGERT: If I can get back to the
Vietnamese woman I saw that was mutilated so horribly, it didn't really
shock me because I think I talked about my first day in Vietnam.
You can check with the marines who've
been to Vietnam. Your last day in the states, staging battalion at
Camp Pendleton, you have a little lesson, and it's called "The Rabbit
Lesson." where the staff NCO comes out and he has a rabbit.
And he's talking to you about escape
and evasion and survival in the jungle, and he has this rabbit.
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