Image: James Speed Hensinger
In April 1970, 22-year-old James Speed Hensinger, an enlisted man in the U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade, was stationed at a compound in Phu Tai, west of the coastal city of Qui Nhon, Vietnam.
Over the course of several nights, a lone Viet Cong fighter had repeatedly crept in among the rocks on a mountain overlooking the base and sprayed the camp with automatic AK-47 fire, perforating the sheet-metal roofs of the Americans’ hooches, killing one man and vexing the rest.
The soldiers were told that an overwhelming response would be prepared for the next time the “sniper” decided to strike Read more…
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Originally syndicated from An Army grunt’s astonishing 1970 photos capture a hellish Vietnam firefight
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