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In May 1967, US special operators and Vietnamese troops went behind enemy lines to take out North Vietnam s top general.
The mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces spent days fighting just to keep them alive.
Fifty-four years ago, a group of American and indigenous commandos fought for their very lives in a small, far away valley in one of the boldest special-operations missions of the Vietnam War.
Codenamed Oscar-8, the target was the forward headquarters of the North Vietnamese Army s 559th Transportation Group and its commander, Gen. Vo Bam, located alongside the Ho Chi Minh trail complex, which ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam and passed through Laos and Cambodia.
When thinking of urban combat, clearing rooms and fighting in close quarters comes to mind, including navigating down tight hallways, clearing staircases,
With a more assertive China, Biden faces growing tensions in Asia 03:22
In the past two weeks, Washington has sent a guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, demonstrating the US continued commitment to the self-governed democratic island. The same destroyer then continued to the Paracel Islands to challenge Beijing s island claims in the South China Sea. Washington also deployed two of its massive aircraft carriers for exercises in the same waters and dispatched one of its newest destroyers to Japan.
And last week it gave the region a fresh look at the Ohio, showing off the 18,000-ton guided-missile submarine as it participated in exercises with US Marines around the Japanese island of Okinawa.