Dan Coy - Vietnam ABC, NBC & CBS News - 1971 Lom Son 719 / Dewey Canyon II

News clips of my tour in Vietnam. Skull on PC, Firefight on Rt9 'Ambush Alley', FSB C-2 Rocket attack on bunker May 21, 1971 - 30 KIA, 29 WIA, Montagnard refugees fleeing Laos to escape being beheaded unless they joined the enemy.

Lom Son 719 / Dewey Canyon II
The Combat After Action Report reflects US casualties at 109 KIA, 650 WIA, and 5 MIA. We lost 62 tanks, APCs, and other vehicles and, as stated above, over 100 (probably understated) helicopters and an additional 603 shot up and damaged. The guys flying the ARVN in and out deserve the utmost respect as many were shot down numerous times in the same day and suffered very heavy casualties. This was conventional war! The NVA, 60,000 strong outnumbered the good guys 3:1 and employed Russian and Chinese Communist tanks, heavy artillery, and radar guided antiaircraft guns. I was at the border when the ARVNs retreated back to Vietnam. They got their asses kicked contrary to what our President touted. He said the operation was “A great success and that Vietnamization was working” … What BS… We pulled the plug and turned our backs on the Vietnamese people and Saigon fell in 1975. The South Vietnamese did not stand a chance without US air support.