He remembered the stomach-wrenching experience of landing in the dark a few yards from the building to deliver ammo and take out a wounded GI. At the time, the Huey command and control chopper was a sitting duck for any VC straggler with an RPG or AK-47.
Damaged District Headquarters, January 2001
Enroute to his former base camp, Robert Anderson and his alluring companion, Jenny Ngo, think they have eluded a suspicious motorcyclist who has trailed them all day.
But don't count on it. If there are any rules of the road in Vietnam, nobody knows about them. Driving is dangerous, especially after dark, as both Anderson and Jenny are about to learn. The hard way.
A bit of history: Binh Loc village is located just north of Highway 1 near Xuan Loc. In 1970, a Vietcong force estimated at 200 soldiers staged a night attack. Unknown to the enemy, the village chief had received warnings and requested that an infantry unit (D Co.,5th Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade), remain there overnight. The American unit, supported by USAF and cobra gunships, took a heavy toll of VC without suffering a serious casualty.
