The Battle Of Khe Sanh 

I’ve had the absolute privilege in hearing every hardship, as well as the ( hard to believe) pleasing moments. Of the siege, on hill 881S. My grandfather, Franklin ( Uncle Frank) A. Gulledge. Was a honorable CH-47 pilot as the rank of Major, in the HMM 364 Purple Foxes. I’ve been very lucky to hear the highs and lows of the men who, so fearlessly held their ground. Even being bombarded with non-stop shelling. These men, are my heroes! Simper Fi.

Khe Sanh was nothing more as bait for the NVA. NVA took the bait and they were turn to ashes. I was only 6 years old in 1966 ,listening to the news on a radio, no Tv at date time. Sarawak ,a state in Nalaysia only have tv in 1974. I understood nothing. When war ended in 1975 I was 15 years old. I knew about the war by reading newspaper. One man, not far from my village named his son Westmoreland. Im from Malaysia.

We never fought the war the correct way. Let me explain first mistake the President micro managed the air war. He never gave the air force the free hand to bomb the enemy effectively. Many times the air force went to designated targets. Often the air force would fly over missiles, anti aircraft weapons, and other weapons. Often the designated targets were bridges, power plants and not the military weapons that were going south. The air war should have been very intensely toward the military planners and their living quarters, ports and factories should have also been destroyed. In other words destroy the enemy preventing the war materials from being delivered to south Vietnam. Second don't send soldiers into dense jungles all that was doing was we were time and again walking into ambush many times this happened over and over. Stopping the flow of war material would greatly reduce the number of casualties and enemy soldiers. These two things would have made a huge difference in the enemy's ability to continue the gorilla war effort.

My Father , Sgt. Gregory Randoll served there .

Peace Through Fire Superiority. USMC 2ND MarDiv

The South Vietnamese relief troops included the crack 1st Airborne Brigade commanded by Col.Le Quang Luong who later became a Major General and Commander of the Airborne Division

Visited the site in 2008. It was overgrown with vegetation and nothing there that is recognizable. There was a small Vietnamese museum at the site detailing the “defeat” of the US at Khe San. The “victors” write the history.

My Brother was There at That Time A US Marine Stationed First at Da Nang Then Went to Dong Ha Marine Base AND Would Travel From Dong Ha To Khe Sanh Frequently Because Dong Ha was A Supply Base..They We're Only 12 miles From the DMZ..They We're Always in Danger At All Times..They We're To Close To North Vietnam...My Brothers is Gone Know ..Died of Agent Orange Dioxin ...But if He Was Here..He Would Like This Flick.. It Would Bring Back Solemn Memories About His Commaredes That Fought in Khe Sanh.. Because They Also Tried to Attack Dong Ha...Thank you For This Trifling Memory..🇺🇲⚔️🪖..Semper Fi..Marines

As a combat veteran myself I have always held the men that fought in the Vietnam War in the highest esteem. In many cases like at Khe Sanh and Ia Drang they were outnumbered and outgunned (except for air power) and they held there ground. The war I fought in (Iraq) pales in comparison to what these men did in Vietnam, and might I add the women who worked hard to patch up our soldiers.

I have wondered why we didn't destroy the communist war machine before it left the ports and factories and the enemy military forces in and around Hanoi. LBJ micro managed the bombing of the North thru target selection thus preventing the air force from destroying the war machine before the supplies started down the trails and roads into South Vietnam. This war should have been over within six to nine month. That is a fact. The quality of bombs that were dropped around k Sane would have brought the war machine in North Vietnam to a halt. Thus stopping the North Vietnamese agression on the South Vietnamese.

Why was this important? Because if this and other battles like it weren't fought the whole of Europe & Asia would be red. Life today would be very different.

The nva who assaulted the south vietnamese sector of the base were decimated by artillery and b52 strikes. Some divisions were vaporized and nothing left to know they ever existed

i was 12 yrs old watching it on walter cronkike news never wanting to turn 18

Before Khe Sanh. There was Lang Vei. ODA-101. Most Decorated Special Forces unit for their stand with Bru Dega tribesmen,,,Twenty four of them were there ,One man was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading three repeated counter attacks to rescue those trapped in the camp...

I'm 55years old . I was 19 then my quotation has alway been why ? There here now.

Wow! The communist Vietnamese took a pretty sound ass whooping at Khe Sanh! The Marines lost 244, while the Vietnamese lost 15,000? That is a 60:1 kill ratio. That is epic! And the liberal media was working with the communists to try to tell us that Khe Sanh was a loss? What the? We handed Giap a severe ass whooping on that one.

The battle may have turned the other way if Giap had major air support from China. It was destiny, grit and superb American air power that saved the day.

Cpl. Doug Hillon my good friend was killed there !

Air power saved them from being overrun.

The South Vietnamese sector was manned by the 37th Ranger Battalion commanded by Captain Hoang Pho . They were forced to station outside the defence perimeter of Khe Sanh Base because the paranoid American Marines did not trusted the experienced Vietnamese Ranger who excelled themselves & stood their ground

my husband was there

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In the end, the NVA proved the spirt of the Vietnamese people was greater than the USA’s technology.

Peace and Love to everyone on this Veterans Day.

Their sand table construction is A+++

The only failure of the USA in Vietnam was to not have flattened Hanoi.

How do you lose a war with that fire power?

Something interesting I read recently is that the scenario to defend Khe Sanh was put through military wargame at the time. It was found in the wargame that the Marines made a decision to withdraw and NOT defend Khe Sanh. MACV Command determined that was not acceptable, and lead to the reinforcement of the base with additional Marines, other units, and artillery. Presidential order was to hold Khe Sanh at all cost - it could not become a Dien Bien Phu. The thinking from Westmoreland was to draw the enemy in and employ tactical nuclear weapons to decimate the enemy which would achieve a significant military victory - several reasons as to why they didn't. We now know that the defense of Khe Sanh resulted in the most intense bombing in a area ever seen in the history of war. In other words, the amount of bombs dropped within a mile of the Khe Sanh combat base was the equivalent of 5 Hiroshima size bombs.

That's Big Trap for NVD

Who is working the focus? They should remaster stuff like this so you don't go blind watching it.

Want friend all - not ,War

Mĩ dù có hùng cường thế nào đi nữa thì trên lãnh thổ của Việt Nam họ cũng ko thể thắng nổi

OORAH MARINES!!!

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The whole war was about money Lady Bird Johnson's family owned Bell Helicopter Company and her and Lyndon Johnson made millions and millions off of stock alone..My friend Mickey was there at that very spot I got in country.. 1970 when i came home in "73" he was a mess he would start screaming at the top of his lungs stop the bombing his eyes were basically bulging out of the socket he was holding his ears all the way to the VA hospital he was constantly drunk got a brand new car totaled it he probably totaled 4 cars drunk by the time they took his license away,Just sucks to see him that way before Vietnam he was a great guy when he came home that war turned him psychotic you would never know if he was going to cry or cut your throat with a knife he passed away before he was 45 years old RIP..Mickey F.. all them deaths were on Lyndon Johnson hands and Nixon and neither of them gave a shit..Now I spent a lot of my time putting little American flags at people's grave sites agent orange is killing everybody if you make it till your 60 years old you're lucky... Marine Corps combat engineer from 1970 to 1973..18th engineer Brigade Semper Fi.. to all the men and women that served no matter what branch of service you were in I would do it all over again..But not their way Westmoreland did everything ass-backwards before I would be a Snowflake and run to Canada or go to jail.. the Patriots of today are long gone...Trump 2020 or this world is fucked..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Why on Earth would you want to set up a base in a valley?...Was it somewhat like repeating the same mistakes the French made?...Help me understand...

My brother was nearby at Phu Bai, he told me the war was planned to be lost by the USA. It was a criminal sacrifice of 57,000 US soldiers.

Kayshon was as strategic and sad as pork chop Hill

what is the song at 27:00?

GO MARINES on MEMORIAL DAY 2012

Tui binh luan na o thay ken ka sao.

Semper Fi

Salute’

o bicho pegou

Sống mãi ma tham vọng bài học nhớ đời

Thanks

Good video ty for posting

Un - American 'Americans' were practically GLOATING over the possibility of death & defeat in Vietnam. Still makes me sick.

thankyou for posting

Video doesn't show how the 1 st. Cavalry was sent there to save the marines.

Why defend a place cost the lives of good men Then just leave it Never understood this warNever kept the real estate which fought for The American services paid heavy price in people for this tactiac

Terrible propaganda doccie.

Khe sanh sàn đấu giữa Hoa kỳ và Việt nam hoa kỳ bị. Việt nam cho đo ván

Mostly inaccurate American propaganda. Does not represent the true disaster that Khe Sahn was. Case in point 19:18. Morale was not good. This whole video makes out that this was a ' walk in the park'.

What a waste of American tax payer money!

This reminds me of movie day in high school history class back in the 80's. Same narration type and feel.