Seige of Khe Sanh Then & Now US Marines Vietnam War 1968
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Siege of Khe Sanh Marine Base 1968 Vietnam TET Offensive. The documentary precisely compares today's feature exhibits with 1968 period photos, visual maps. Provides an insight to action experienced during 1968. Also visits the US Base at the Rockpile and the location of the Ho Chi Minh Trail at Dakrong Bridge Highway 9. Excellent visitation and orientation.
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I served at Khe Sanh and returned in 2016 to spend a month touring the country. My buddy and I hired a car and driver/interpreter for $85 a day, that included a hotel every night and meals. That is the way to go as you can go anywhere unlike the expensive package tours. We had a great time and really enjoyed the welcoming people everywhere we went. We're going back in January for 6 weeks, I cant wait. My buddy Ted had a great camera and made a nice 2 hour video of our trip including Khe Sanh and more. If you served in Nam go back while you can, it will be a good experience.
Milo Bragg was there at KHE SAHN USMC 3rd Division 1969. Another terrible war it's good to see that old hostilities can be forgotten.
58,000 of your brothers died in nam and you had a " good time"...I fought 2 tours in iraq and 1 in Afghanistan, you really think I want to return there in 20,30 years?...if indeed you were at khe sahn, had to be a Marine...from one to another, SEMPER FI!!!...but to say you had a good time and plan to return to vietnam,makes my skin crawl considering what nam vets went through both there and when they got back home
I agree. I found viewing this very sad. Too many brothers gave up everything there. USN 1969-1973.
@@robertrowe8531 Often, going back to the battlefield long after the fighting is over, can be very theraputic.
@@robertrowe8531 , as a former marine conflict vet everybody responds to their visit to hell differently if you don't ever let the dark shit go , it stays with you and eats your soul and you a hollow form of yourself to each his own everybody has to bury their dead and move on
I have visited Khe Sanh last month.
Very good video, giving an accurate overview of this unforgettable place.
There were other US troops there in addition to the Marines. One of those units was the US Army’s 544th Signal Detachment which provide communications for the base. Their tropospheric/microwave equipment linked to the 513th Signal Detachment’s site in Hue. In some photos you can see their dish antenna’s beside the runway. Almost the entire team was killed when an artillery round hit their personnel bunker. The only survivor was the man on duty with the equipment. The unit was awarded the Navy Presidential Unit Citation. Replacements volunteered from the 37th Signal Battalion’s 337th Signal Company in DaNang. I was in the 337th.
I was there in April 2019 for me I felt an deep emotional loss and sadness for both sides. Well worth visiting this is a great video well done
My dad was assigned to Hill 689 during the relief and was involved in the last battle of the campaign.
iamchillydogg God Bless your dad and the other men that served alongside him.
poor guy.
As a Marine Nam Vet, I was very lucky to be stationed at Chu Lai 68-69 1st MAW MAG 12 and not Khe Sanh. To my Nam Vet Brothers who were there…RESPECT. And WELCOME HOME to those who made it. SALUTE to those who didn’t.
The hero s r the dead
@@royclose946 you must respect all the veteran too
Semper Fi brother!!!!!
Thank you all for your service to our country and your sacrofice for me and my family, Semper Fi I know the price of our freedom and I appreciate your sacrofice for mine! Thank you, may God bless you and keep you in all your ways! Amen
Thank you Brothers for your sacrifice and thinking of the many that didn't get to come home all we were looking forward to was the day we could catch that freedom bird coming home.
I almost broke my leg jumping in that trench line remember the day like yesterday
Well done, thank you.
Thank you too!
Vietnam is such a beautiful place.
Vietnamese are also friendly and opened. We love peace and want to live peacefully on our land. Americans have brought war to our country, but if they want to be friends we are always welcome
It is beautiful, but, it still is a backward country.
@@ucangminh5764 Commies and the North Vietnamese brought terrible war to the South and they won after American politics drove the US military and US aids away.
Backward? We are trying to develope ourselves! GDP growth etc
@@boondocker7964 Backward rather than become a lapdog/slaves to the U.S. like the shameful nation called south vietnam. Lol.
Thanks,
Is that Cold Chisel "Khe Sanh" playing on the acoustic guitar near the end?....very appropriate lyrics.
If you send our troops to war, go in to win. If you can't do that , then don't go in.
Unfortunately the US military industrial complex wants constant war so they do not fight to win. Eisenhower warned us before he left office about the military industrial complex and how much power and control they had they put greed ahead of lives.
@@jeffdoran8126
Goes back further than Eisenhower, Lincoln warned about them.
there is no winning just death and lots of money for the investors
Win what?...mr.lawson....you think war is a football game?....let me put it this way....war is like cancer, chemotherapy kills the cancer, but leaves the body weak , then you heal yourself and get better, then proclaim you are a cancer survivor, only thing a man does in war, is to survive it....let's hope YOU will never experiance that
@@jeffdoran8126 ...sometimes you have to make war....to live in peace
Sure doesn't look like when I was there. BTW, that CH-47 was a rarity there; the resupply and transport to/from the hills was done by Marine CH-46 and to a lesser extent (as far as cargo) UH-34.
It wasn’t just the Marines who were there, there were also Army Special Forces troops there and they were there before the Marines came and set up their part of the base.
khe sanh marines thank you semper fi that was another battle going on six miles away from khe sanh base lang vei army special forces the green berets
I highly suggest taking the tour if you get a chance to go to Vietnam. Very easy to book these trips and inexpensive. It was an honor to stand on those hollowed grounds.
you mean hallowed grounds
To all the Marines people hat served at Khe sanh you are not forgotten never.
Thank you for an honest and fair video.
This video is pretty amazing, tbh.
The gun shone, was NOT a 105, it was an M-114 "155"mm . . .
@MysteryFan . . . Its at 9:41 on the video.
Three years later a joint ARVN US military operation was once again carried out along RT 9, recapturing this base and building a new airfield. The name, Lam Son 719 was a combat assault into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Min trail. It also was a costly disaster. This area was heavily defended and had much heavy artillery and many anti aircraft guns that were used on American helicopters.
Khe Sanh was the staging area for US helicopters to ferry ARVN troops into Laos in the 1971 incurstion. Several videos on RUclips about it.
I don't think I could keep my mouth shut when you would have to listen on how great the NVA was.
I believe the NVA didn't enter the war in earnest until the U.S. made its commitment under Johnson. This video makes it sound like it was a war fought only by the NVA, it was started and fought by the Viet Cong before the NVA entered, though they had close ties to the Viet Cong. South Vietnam had a communist system already functioning with many experienced soldiers and political cadre already in place, organized after the war with the French. The communist government gradually assimilated the Viet Cong after the war and makes it sound like it was all NVA which is far from the truth.
@@dallasbeus2117 Well you have to know that the NLF was dissolved after the war was over to their disappointment. During Tet the NLF was all wiped out by the US and in doing so that gave the NVA an open field to just take the war over for their ends. Remember the NLF was only looking to be treated fairly by the South was so corrupt
@@dallasbeus2117 The communist North always had their own ends they wanted to meet for the South
@@bobtis It is amazing to me how ignorant the U.S. was of the Vietnamese. If the U.S. hadn't supported the dictatorship of Diem and used political strategy to ally the NLF the outcome could have been entirely different.
The U.S. effort in Vietnam was self defeating and deceitful. My brother went into the army on the buddy plan with a friend. His friend was killed there. I researched his death approximately 20 yrs ago I believe connected with the moving Vietnam wall memorial. The U.S. government's info on his death was he was killed by small arms fire. I have always remained interested in his friend's death in Vietnam because I had known him as a child. I was once again researching his friend's Vietnam history when I came upon a website memorializing Vietnam vets and found his webpage. One of his fellow Vietnam soldier buddies had left a message and said he had helped put him on a helicopter after his injuries. His friend left an email address and I emailed him. I was curious about what he had posted and come to find out my brother's friend had been killed after a battle with the NVA/VC when they were blowing bunkers and the engineers hadn't warned him they were blowing it and he was killed by the blast. This seems to be typical of the Vietnam war. I had a cousin that was drafted by the Marines and told me there was massive drug smuggling and profiteering going on. He was never the same after returning, it definitely damaged him.
I grew up during the war when we were taught how saintly the Viet Cong was and how bad the U.S. soldiers were. I have since gained a huge amount of respect for the grunts who fought in Vietnam but have lost all respect for the politicians and military people who got us involved and then lost the war.
@@dallasbeus2117 Amen to that. Great Post
This was one of those rare places where NOBODY talked smack about the airlift crews going in and out of there, I'd bet
The artillery piece that they show in the A/13 battery area ( 9:34 ) is NOT a 105mm piece. It's a 155mm piece.
thanks for advising this error
@@1915oz You are welcome. I was an artillery FO ( Forward Observer) during the siege. I was part of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines on Hill 861 about 3000 meters west of the combat base. Still have my original map and the binoculars I used. My artillery battery was C/1/13 but I often used Alpha Battery 1/26 ( along with others) in the fire missions I called in -- In excess of 400 in the 77 days of the siege. Nice film and great overlays. Excellent use of the helicopter revetments (at the base ) to point out where the real runway used to be. They are the ONLY thing left over from the combat base.
Thanks for your service, Yes I have tried to go to the Hill outposts. i need to study those outpost battles a lot more. i think i will just stay at Khe Sanh town and walk out or catch a cycle. 400 missions incredible like the Vietnamese just kept coming ?
Yea i thought the revetments were original but if you see part 2
from a 2019 trip they are made of concrete.
I think the whole base was leveled after 1968 by the USA. It was used again later like the missions into Laos,
do u have any pics of those times?
@@1915oz I made a trip back ( not going again) in the summer of 2000. The only reason I went back was because I had learned that the Hills ( at least 881s and 861 ) were accessible. Otherwise, it would have been pointless for me to go and stand on the old runway and look out to Hill 861 3000 meters away. I needed to be on the hill....nothing less. The only reason I went back was to say goodbye in a proper and fitting way to 28 friends of mine who lost their lives on or around 861. Back in 1968, there was no time to mourn or to come to terms with their deaths. I went with three other KS vets and a former student of mine - Dave Kniess -- ( I was a high school English teacher and football coach) who had graduated in 1988. Dave had stayed in touch over the decade and when he heard I was finally going back, he asked if he could accompany us. He brought a very expensive digital video camera with him and filmed almost 25 hours of our trip. Back home ( and over the next three years) he edited that down to 55 minutes and produced a documentary entitled Khe Sanh: A Walk in the Clouds. It played on many Public TV stations in the US and just a few years ago he released it to RUclips. On RUclips type in my name and Vietnam or the title and it will show up. It's in 12 minute segments and start with 1. At the end you get the option for 2, etc..... In 2000 the metal helicopter revetments were still there and as the documentary shows, the museum was just a small building....long gone since then. Not what is there today or all the "extras" either. I do have many photos from my 861 time all digitalized now from prints and slides. Good to hear back from you. Dennis
ruclips.net/video/Fxsh1Xq7egQ/видео.html
at 14:00 that c-130 was manufactured in 1956 and sold to the Rep of Vietnam AF..=== MSN 182-3140) to Republic of Vietnam AF as 004. Derelict at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam. Moved to Khe Sanh for display.
Preserved at Khe Sanh Combat Base Museum in USAF markings==== this info is from Joseph F. Baugher..he is an aircraft buff and has a website...
it was rebranded USAF markings for the museum..
Thanks, I was guessing it was ex-Vietnamese aircraft. Prob the same for the others on display.
M-41 tanks were not used by the Marines in tet 68, but by the ARVN in Lam Son 719 in 1971
right, M-41 had left in Lam Son 719 operation
I salute the gallant Marines, Army and NVA troopers who served here and gave their lives. Semper Fidelis HIP - F 2/3 1968 It was Hell in a very small place.
Much respect to all NVA, VC and US, Australian, New Zealand and all other allies of South Vietnam, basically every soldier who fought on both sides. These, in my opinion, were some of the very best soldiers to ever grace a battlefield. The hellish conditions they faced were unlike any before or since.
Much love and respect to both sides and the men and women who fought in this living hell of a war. I hae been a Vietnam War history buff for many moons and my respect for these brave souls just increases as time goes on and the more I learn the more impressed I become.
For those still around I send you love and respect and wish for peace and happiness for both sides. I cannot imagine what you went through, we can read the stories but nothing could ever make us understand what these brave souls went through...you would have to experience it. At any rate...best of luck to every soldier who took up arms in that war. Peace.
USMC had several M-48 Patton tanks at the base during the siege
532 (MSN 182-3140) to Republic of Vietnam AF as 004. Derelict at Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam. Moved to Khe Sanh for display. Preserved at Khe Sanh Combat Base Museum in USAF markings.
I figured some of the numbers were wrong: Tail code "CA" was for the B-52's stationed at Castle AFB.
DMZ was known as the 'Dead Marine Zone'
G/2/5 An Hoa/Arizona Territory 68-69
I served with G/2/5 from 1993 to 1996. Semper Fi!!!
'The war in Vietnam was not a cold war. It was a war for independence. - Robert MacNamara.
Independence for who? For the puppet government?
@@vitorgaray you are right! Thanks for your time.
Victorgary! Who is the puppet? SVN gangsters?
McNamara was a war criminal.
In a just society, macnamara should have been publicly disemboweled
One outstanding fact was that Ho Chi Min visited the US when he was younger-and absolutely loved the ideals in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. He went back to Vietnam inspired to fight for his country's independence. The South wouldn't have existed without money, equipment and US boots as it was a completely corrupt puppet government. The advisers we sent early 60's were exasperated at trying to train the South Vietnamese Army as their officers were usually corrupt, had bought their commissions, and typically sold the US issue equipment and other goodies on the black market. In spite of all this, Nixon came really close to bringing the North to their knees with heavy bombing and an invasion of Cambodia that the North had used to hide behind for years. Nixon had to back down to political pressure, generated mainly from the media. (It's when true journalism died here and became politically motivated ever since.)
@Wes McGee Thanks Wes. The history is there if only people would study it for themselves instead of being spoon fed by various media-usually with their own opinions or agenda attached to it.
Was or is communism form of government worth fighting over? Liberty is very important to most...
Being tested in Hong Kong right now ?
@@1915oz The tragedy was that for a long time communism was the main ideology against colonialism on the 20th century...
So much so that It was only after Wildrow Wilson turned Ho Chi Mihn away and decided to support the european's colonial pempires that he went to the USSR and gained support of the comunists, but he was always a nacionalist fisrt and then a socialist not the other way around, so that, until the US decided to bomb them and support the French he still held the americans in high regard. It's really crazy to think what'd have happened if the US had supported anti colonialism from the start.
You speak the truth.
@@giovannigam bạn đã đúng như những gì người Vietnam nghĩ
Its hardly ever mentioned that it was the 26th marine battalion 5th. marine division at Khe Sahn. Support was by anything that could fly . Also, It was a jump off and resupply hub for air america.
At 21 minutes in, that is a 155 mm. M114 a1 howitzer. Not a 105 mm as described.
It was actually a 175mm
No, I think it’s a 155 mm. My unit used to have these until they were retired and replaced with the m198 howitzer.also, in 155 mm.
@@michaelnelson9140 I'm looking @ 9:48 in the video, I was an F/O back in the day, but I could be wrong!
9:47 Business end, I was 11B1P but played with 88's 105's 155's & 175 were being phased out!
I took another look at the video. I still think I’m right. However I have never been around 175’s. Maybe they had one on a similar carriage, but I think the tube is too short on this one. I always envied you forward observers. Thought that would have been fun. Calling in fire missions.but I was also fdc. 13 e. So I used to talk to you guys.
holy..near the end of the video..you can still see the B-52 bomb craters.
Very interesting. Thank You
I was a 100 miles south of these Marines. Fighting for thei lifes
I’m surprised there’s never been a movie made about this battle. Every other major battle in war has been portrayed in a movie so, why not?
I had a brother at Khe Sanh fighting off the Viet Cong.
If the US had fought the war without limitations it would have been over relatively quickly. The NVA went down the HCM trail through Laos while the US was not allowed to attack them. The bombing of Hanoi during the Linebacker operations was hindered from the start. If you are going to attack then attack with full power, not just a little and then pull back to the peace table. The US only fought the ground war in South Vietnam which made sure that it would not have been won. LBJ should have been criminally charged and McNamara should have known better. When you fight an enemy then you bring the fight to his doorstep. With all of that being said, I visited Saigon in August 2019 with my son excactly 50 years after my father left the last time. He served in Hue, Bien Hoa, Da Nang and Dong Ha (1966-1969). We got as close to Bin Hoa as we could but the area is off limits to people that don't live there... probably due to the fact that they kept Agent Orange there. I hope to go back within a year or two, but this time to Hanoi, Hue and Saigon of course... it's a very nice city.
True yes political limitations to a war set by Washington = disaster
The ghost of Korea still haunted the Vietnam war that no way US political leaders would make an adventure into North Vietnam which would trigger a massive Chinese intervention.
Concerning the massive Christmas bombing of North Vietnam to force Hanoi back into negotiation table had the right effect for the wrong reason. Hanoi did. They signed that 1973 Paris peace agreement then broke it and won the Vietnam war. Communist and dictators then and now do not play by Western rules. The agreement has no teeth. Pieces of papers do not stop them from gaining with forces.
Oh, so you just wanted to just carpet bomb everything for your little victory? Typical american.
Also, whats a Saigon? Lol
@@to-tt7fc america carpet bombs and destabilizes half the world in the 20th and 21st century but its those evil gommies that wont play by the rules....
Lol, pathetic
Why after the Vietcong made the French surrender at Dien Bien Phu, would any sane military planner have a base that is almost ringed by higher terrain. Just like Dien Bien Phu...
western arrogance
President Johnson was an imbecile, McNamara was a dick, Westmoreland was beyond arrogant to think that we could win, that America would tolerate, a "body count" war.
I believe the documentary stated that a lot of those mountains,not all,were in Laos,where the Marines were not allowed to go and that's were the NVA had their 130mm artillery set up,if the Marines had been allowed to operate in Laos,they would have taken those areas and would have occupied all of the high ground.
When the French were there,they were called the Vietminh,not Vietcong.
Proof of videos leading to the Vietnam War on RUclips video and see/ listen yourself.
1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967)
2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination.
3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident.
5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft.
6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement.
7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word.
8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU)
9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage
10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam.
Look up the bio Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The South Vietnamese President that US President JF Kennedy place as President of South Vietnam after he had the former South Vietnamese catholic President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu killed. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed by Vietnam emperor Bao Dai Nguyen and France and United States agreed to stay and support him to establish a Democratic South Vietnam. But that later change when a young Democrat name John F Kennedy became US President and his Vice President LB Johnson became America Commander in Chief. And then LB Johnson started the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin on Aug. 4, 1964. The following year after JF Kennedy sent his CIA to stage a military coup assassination on a catholic South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm.
We used to patrol past that coffee plantation & to our surprise the woman working it, were bare breasted. They were Montergaurds (mountain people) The plantation was still owned by a Frenchman. It was quite a pleasant surprise for a bunch of 18&19 year old Marines to see half naked woman!
What year was that?
@@1915oz I'm not 100 percent sure, because I didn't keep a diary, but it was either late 1967 or Early 1968. I was with Bravo co. 1/26. Semper Fi.
Thanks for your service...maybe it looks a bit the same now with the coffee bushes
1' the longest sieges that the american military has ever delt with this was 1' of the most intense battles that the Corps has ever faced 77'days of non stop combat before he passed away i kept a light correspondence with gunny ermy and dale dye ( dye was on my FB page ) to try and push the idea for a movie to be directed by crazy oliver stone but he wasn't showing any real intrest in the idea but it would've been nice to see
the siege of khe sanh right up there with hamburger hill , but ermy died and i gave up chating with dye and the idea is just that an idea for a war movie that nobody wants to finance
NVA had thought American air power was the same as French’s or just a bit better and they could bombard the Marines positions with artillery and rockets then overrun them like they did to the French Paratroopers in Dien Bien Phu 1954. Oh boy what a mistake they made, 15k NVA soldiers killed mostly by B52 carpet bomb runs.
15k NVA is as tragic as the lost Marines, we had no business invading a country based on another big fat US Govt. LIE.
And the best fighter of the Vietnam War the F4.
Where is that information come from🤣
Lots of bomb craters in Laos as well. Saw from the air on the way to Bangkok.
Why is it ..That America seems to forget that there was Australian and New Zealand Gun Crews plus INFANTRY..Please don't forget that America wasn't there on there own
only Aussies at Khe Sanh were RAAF Canberra bombers flying above. well from memory thinking they made a few sorties
Moron
Shaddup
Yup. We haven't forgotten but the original response is exactly correct. Come on man if you're going to say something like that make sure you do you're homework before accusing us of disregarding aussies.
Not by THOES who served there. Bless
Como quisiera conocer esos lugares históricos a mi particularmente me parece algo facinante aun que fue duro para las personas que participaron en tan horrenda guerra
9:58 the corner bottom of that sand bag bunker.. seem like there something watch them or was it just the light of camera 🤔😱
Not sure, but around this area there are some old shells just a slight showing above the ground
Actually well done piece of reporting. Thank you. I like it when I learn new information on a subject I know pretty well. Like Afghanistan the US had the Vietnam War won twice, if they had just pushed and fought to win-politics' and the US war industry making money, turning the wars into 20 year imperial wars. The bombing campaign and after the Tet Offensive when I understand from the Vietnam Government, they lost north or south of 120,000 North Vietnamese regulars (much respect) and Viet Cong, they were spent. The Viet Cong lost so many troops the North would control the Viet Cong and Southern Communists till the end of the war. Cheers
True take politics out of the war equation and the war would have been short lived.
I just saw in Vietnamese news that the Dakrong bridge is on the verge of collapsing :(
Both helicopters shown are Army. Why not have Marine Corp choppers
The C130 tail flash is GA..historically that would've been George AFB California however, there were never C130s stationed there so who knows.
I now think it was down at Tan Son Nhut Saigon Airport for many years. Wonder if it was flown in or road transport?
Interesting. They must have to work weekly to keep those aircraft from deteriorating in that environment.
All of the aircraft and vehicles were captured in 1975 when the war ended were from the south vietnamese armed forces.
Had a friend from high school killed there . All for nothing .
This is my hometown
i guess the Khe Sanh was a village back in the 1960's ?
Same province as mine. I was born in Ancient Citadel
Mine is Saigon
A new found respect of the
MARINE CORPS
The "official" number of KIA reported for Khe Sanh is incorrect. The 26th Marines chaplain documented all the KIA that were processed through Charlie Med and he has a list of 470 names, including rank, unit, and date of death. A lot of lives were lost at Khe Sanh, including many who were my good friends.
Operation Fracture Jaw: This is where General William Westmoreland contemplated the use of Tactical Nuclear Bomb to break the siege but aborted due to exposure by the Press. Built in 1962 with or without the knowledge of JFK???
Talk to the folks at the United States Air Museum Archives to find out the history of that C-30.
Nice folks. Good luck.
AAAaaaaaa, 26th. Marine were activated for Viet Nam in July of 1966 and make up the 5th.DIVISION.
All wars in modern day will end with peace talks and negotiation. If the politicians remember the history of World War 2, Korean War, Vietnam War etc., why do you send the young men and women to the battlefield? So, seek difference between nations and people, do not wage any more war please.
Lang vei feb 6/7 1968.... fell before KS
I come from a town near LangVeil
Narthna naut You live near Lang vei Vietnam? I was last there about 9 years ago.
Tell me about yourself. Thanks
@@tapptom Hi Mr.Tom. Please we can contact via email. My email trananh.tuan@yahoo.com.Thank you
The Vietcong try to overrun Khe sanh to make them famous like they overran French in Dien bien phu, But they fell by Americans force.
At last final we won.
Vietnam is my and ourself country .
Haha really. They failed but why the Marines retreated?
@@davidnguyen763 won my ass!Thang Vietcong DOI ngheo.You must change your name because you aren't American.Won Cai con cac tao,44nam chien thang trong ngheo DOI,lac hau...
@@Lion-n7p 44 năm sủa trong nhục nhã và bị lãng quên ,loài chó 3/ sắp tuyệt chủng kkkk
The VC were not involved at Khe Sahn....NVA
As a old marine the French are good for buying rifles never been fired and only dropped once
Sounds more like the US funded and trained Afgan army!!!
Americans are known for getting their asses kicked by farmers but claiming victory by counting women and children as enemy combatants.
The us military did not lose in vietnam were were out number 5 to 1 there were 500 thousand men there if there were only 250 thousand combat troops there were 1 million Vietnam soldiers if the politicians kept there nose out of it we would of waxed them 300 russia troop got there butts waxes by 13 marines in in the middle east so we fight hard and smart
@@garywischner5200 no, you just indiscriminately bombed a bunch of civilians and deemed them as enemy combatants and STILL lost...just like every fucking war youre in. You go in, slaughter a bunch of innocents, then leave with the tail between your legs and then cope for 50 years saying "bUt muH BoDY coUnT!!"
@@garywischner5200 the nazis did the same shit in the eastern front. Go in and just kill everyone in sight, get their asses kicked hard and then get taken in by amerikkka and write books about how the germans had a higher body count.. you nam vets are shameless sacks of shit...especially the ones who walk around in public with their vientnam vet hats...it would be no different than some old german walking around with a "i served in the SS eastern front" hat. Youre both horrid war criminal imperialists who got their asses kicked by commies
Brother was there at the time USMC 3rd Division Another war the world could have done with out .
oooh you was in battle of ken sanh?
were you a marine?
There will always be war. Since man has inhabited this earth , there has been war. The USA gets in a war on average about every 20 years. The countries of this world call out for our help. One of the downsides for being a world "super- power"......
So that’s the Do Lung bridge...
This "war" started IN THE 50'S !!! GET IT STRAIGHT !!!!
The late 40s
Thank You
This robotic narration really stinks, does a disservice to the video...
The C-130A in the video is from the 165th Airlift Wing.
The C-130A HERCULES is from the VNAF-THE REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM AIR FORCE captured on the ground at TAN SON NHUT AIR BASE ON 30/4/1975 along with 6 other intact C-130A aircraft and at least 5 other destroyed or damaged aircraft. It was 56-0532/GZN of the 437 TRANSPORT SQUADRON ,53RD TACTICAL WING,5TH AIR DIVISION ,VNAF.It was moved to KHE SANH about 8 years ago and ironically did supply drops and LAPES -LOW ALTITUDE PARACHUTE EXTRACTION DROPS at KHE SANH with the USAF-UNITED STATES AIR FORCE IN 1968.
@@simonmckinlay1784 Thanks for the details.
It's blood on that bridge on the walls haunted bridge
Those bombs are inert
the American fight in Vietnam , but they didn't know about Vietcong .
True, I think sometimes when traveling in Vietnam the people are so nice and peaceful must have been very different place in the late 60's ... a paradox... a determined people no doubt.
I agree Viet Cong translates as beloved Vietnam
Oh, we found out about them.
@@1915oz You betcha it was a very different place in the 1960's.
@@boondocker7964 Were you at Khe Sanh during the war?
Vietnam Hero’s 🇻🇳👌💪💪💪👍
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Con gusto fuera a conocer
VIETNAM AND IRAQ 2. = MISTAKES true Alan true, the big shots who mess up never go to jail though
I’d call em Crimes, rather than mistakes
The truth to the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts off funds to all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for starting the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam
semper fi 2/4 , 3/3
The story is they were "bail."
Beginning of the End
So What Difference to France Ven Den Pieu?
US won.
Dien Bin Phu was the last stand of the French Army in Vietnam... it's comparable to the US losing Saigon I guess.
@@gregoryaparker The US did not lose Saigon, that was the forces of South Vietnam that lost Saigon, Freedom, and for many, their very lives..
@@731973000 True,there were no US forces in South Vietnam when Saigon fell,but the South Vietnamese did not lose on their own,a Democrat Congress here in the US helped by cutting off all aid to South Vietnam,and the South Vietnamese ran out of anything to fight with.The Paris Peace Accords were badly flawed in that N.Vietnamee and VC forces were allowed to stay in their strong holds inside of S.Vietnam,at first President Theiu of S.Vietnam would not agree to the treaty, but President Nixon promised him that if the N.Vietnam violated the agreement, the bombers would return,then Nixon had to resign because of Watergate and when President Ford tried to keep Nixon's promise,the Democrat Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam, by doing so they made sure the Communists would win,I think President Theiu should have refused to sign the treaty unless President Nixon's promise was written into the accords,that way it would have been harder for the Democrats to stop another all out bombing campaign and harder to cut off all aid to South Vietnam.
@@jessiepinkman7736 no,the NVA won.The Us abandoned the base.
This is example of why we underestimate the vietnamese fighting from mountains charly used elephants to bring artillery up the mountains when the b52s dropped lrams daisy cutters that place looked like the moon
My uncle was USMC in Vietnam, H-34 helicopter crew chief - they saw elephants carrying Viet nam supplies and they didn't like it but had to shoot.
Yeah,they brought all of that artillery up and in the end,it did them no good, they lost at Khe Sanh.
A lot of stuff I'd like to burn rather than let the enemy show it off
every year these sites are visited by american veterans that were there ...why burn them??
I'm guessing the MArines left behind plenty of "little presents" when they di-di'd.
Very good Videos in Khe Sanh
VC North Vietnam 🇻🇳 Army had too many deaths by US 🇺🇸 Airport Boom 💥 about 10.000 North VN Army deaths by B52 and F4,,F5 Boom 💥 but North Vietnam 🇻🇳 Won the War at Khe Sanh..
Well North Vietnam 🇻🇳 did not conquer this very battle...but they gave it their all
And in the end it didn’t even matter
depends...
I tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it didn't even matter!
comp voice sucks but really good video
@MysteryFan Yep u are right there :)...but robot voice also saves so much time...hope the vid is interesting.. is the artillery piece a 105 ?
im a novice and not sure...i was back at Khe Sanh a few months ago and they have moved it up the hill into a bunker placement.
I was a Vietnam/Draft resistor in early 1970...after this. I remember watching this conflict on TV every night. What troubled me is how Americans could actually be fighting for survival under siege for several months. Americans? And, if I remember correctly, a relief column to Khe Sanh was having a hard time getting to the base.
So the US "won" that battle? Or did the enemy actually prove their abilities and then withdraw? Do I also understand that Khe Sanh was closed down not too long after the Seige and the enemy eventually took over?
How in the hell did the enemy do what it did for so long when the US had so much air power and superiority over them?
One of the MANY reason I had absolutely NO problem resisting the Draft and the war.
I also don't understand if they did close that base....why? Wasn't it strategically located near the DMZ, Laos and one of the routes of the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
You don’t have the right to ask or know .Go hide under your bed and watch out for incoming.
@@grahamprice3230 Neanderthals like yourself shouldn't have the right to comment. REAL intelligent and free Americans have the "right to ask or know". Obviously you don't qualify.
@@Greezemonkey-n6r Semper Fi my lost brother.
sorry for your loss
@@2NDCBT
The Marines numbered but a few hundred, while the NVA was able to mass thousands. Khe Sanh was a siege, kinda like the Alamo. The enemy was able to prevail because so many Americans refused to leave the comforts of home and face down communist agression. Unfortunately the communist threat will never go away until its defeated. We fought the Chinese and the Russians in Korea, we fought them in Vietnam and guess who we are getting ready to "square off" with again. So I congratulate you on your ability to successfully avoid your duty to your country. I'm certain the same disease that afflicted you is no doubt prevelant in todays young and thus American will continue to decline while communist agreesion engulfs the world. Oh well, who cares about freedom and justice. Certainly not you !
Been there can't see anything any more old airstrip still there now they grow coffee
Is there much to still see?
Since this video is 5 years old. How much is still there?
I might go there this week
Sure exactly the same as the video... Its a North Vietnam 🇻🇳 national museum
Proof of videos leading to the Vietnam War on RUclips video and see/ listen yourself.
1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967)
2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination.
3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident.
5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft.
6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement.
7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word.
8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU)
9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage
10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam.
Look up the bio Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The South Vietnamese President that US President JF Kennedy place as President of South Vietnam after he had the former South Vietnamese catholic President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu killed. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed by Vietnam emperor Bao Dai Nguyen and France and United States agreed to stay and support him to establish a Democratic South Vietnam. But that later change when a young Democrat name John F Kennedy became US President and his Vice President LB Johnson became America Commander in Chief. And then LB Johnson started the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin on Aug. 4, 1964. The following year after JF Kennedy sent his CIA to stage a military coup assassination on a catholic South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm.
The Rock pile? Yeah, right, lovely place, just where I'd like to be. NOT!
I spent 6 weeks on the Rock Pile Sept/Oct66 as radio man with 4th Marines. Was indeed a lovely place. I think that's me on far right at 3:54.
@@gyrenejake8809 On the Rock Pile, (way up atop) sitting and observing vs. being at the base of the Rock Pile and doing day time patrols and LP's, and ambushes at night?
Knightriders!
Castro funded that bridge?
Fuck.... A communist bridge !!! Paint it red !
Paint it red !!
A marine said after b52 strikes he felt sorry for those poor bastards that is what kept the base from being over run. Then after the battle we abandon the base anyway FUBAR
It’s called the American War
in Vietnam = American War in USA = Vietnam War
@@1915oz Haha. Ironic but true due to political reasons. Over there, they want to blame the Amecicans and get compensation from the US. Here, people want to blame the US military anyway and leave Vietnam into history.
@@PhucDuong1234 They deserve compensation and an apology, the US government will never do right by Vietnam or by Vietnam veterans, it's all been washed down the memory hole. At least Vietnamese are not killing each other. Let us continue to pray for all the victims, the dead and the living, and let us pray for forgiveness.
@theviet Thank you from Seattle, I was in Nha Trang during Tet 1968. I loved Vietnam and the people, and I hated the war and resisted in the ranks. Peace be with all the survivors of the war.
Proof of videos leading to the Vietnam War on RUclips video and see/ listen yourself.
1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967)
2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination.
3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident.
5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft.
6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement.
7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word.
8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU)
9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage
10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam.
Look up the bio Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The South Vietnamese President that US President JF Kennedy place as President of South Vietnam after he had the former South Vietnamese catholic President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu killed. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed by Vietnam emperor Bao Dai Nguyen and France and United States agreed to stay and support him to establish a Democratic South Vietnam. But that later change when a young Democrat name John F Kennedy became US President and his Vice President LB Johnson became America Commander in Chief. And then LB Johnson started the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin on Aug. 4, 1964. The following year after JF Kennedy sent his CIA to stage a military coup assassination on a catholic South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. Also search and read about US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Vietnam and see who he sent to help train the Vietminh under Ho Chi Minh against the Japanese army in the Pacific during WWII.
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