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Title: Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp
Post by: mystery-ak on June 21, 2013, 12:35:08 am
Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 17:33 EST, 20 June 2013 | UPDATED: 17:48 EST, 20 June 2013



A Vietnam War veteran has released incredible night-time photographs he took of American troops opening fire on a Viet Kong sniper who had been firing on a U.S. Army camp.

For more than four decades, photographer James Speed Hensinger kept these incredible photographs to himself, not releasing them to the public until now.

Hensinger was just a 22-year-old paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in April 1970 when a Viet Kong sniper began spraying automatic rifle fire on Hensinger's base in Phu Tai, near the coastal city of Da Nang.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/20/article-2345454-1A6A56F5000005DC-897_964x663.jpg)


many more photos at link

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345454/Incredible-Vietnam-War-photos-moment-American-troops-unleash-hell-Viet-Kong-sniper-hills-Army-camp.html#ixzz2Wo3qek9o

Title: Re: Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp
Post by: Atomic Cow on June 21, 2013, 12:56:05 am
VC got owned.

And every 5th round is a tracer.
Title: Re: Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp
Post by: PzLdr on June 21, 2013, 03:47:47 am
SAT CONG!  :smokin:
Title: Re: Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp
Post by: GourmetDan on June 21, 2013, 01:20:40 pm

'The rocks on the slope were as big as Volkswagens. It took a very stupid officer to put a pin in the map and say, "Build it here."'


Title: Re: Astonishing Vietnam War photos reveal the moment U.S. troops unleashed hell on Viet Kong sniper in hills above an Army camp
Post by: NavyCanDo on June 21, 2013, 06:09:25 pm
VC got owned.

I was hoping to read that they found remains. They didn't. A blood trail was all that could be found. VC Got Away.