At midday on July 29, 1968, 18-year-old Mike Cunningham, of Roslindale, Massachusetts, a rifleman with the US Army’s Americal Division, was cleaning up an old foxhole below the rim of a hill in Tien Phuoc Province in central Vietnam when he was told that a helicopter carrying hot food was headed to his company’s position.
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