The Battle That Changed the Vietnam War: Green Berets and Seabees Fight for Survival at Dong Xoai
Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, 5th Special Forces Group, had arrived at Dong Xoai in late May 1965 to train local Montagnard tribesmen and South Vietnamese forces. On June […]