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Tam Island (foreground) & Hon Tre Island (background) This could easily be the cover of a travel brochure. |
Coral
heads off the tip of Hon Tre Island Note the patrol boat just off the island tip. |
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| A-502
was also responsible for inland waterways. Binh Tan, 502's eastern most outpost, ran boat patrols up these waterways. |
The
mountains of the Dong Bo. A-502 climbed these mountains to heights above the cloud line in search of a legendary enemy stronghold. |
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Interpreter "Light" (last in column) with 3 CIDG companies and A-502 advisors (not pictured) in elephant grass on the Dong Bo mountainside. |
The
Dong Bo combat patrol "in force" as they make their way through jungle so thick it could hold an enemy soldier only an arm's length away. |
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| Rice
paddies south of My Loc outpost. My Loc was A-502's western most outpost in the Nha Trang Valley. Paddies like these ran the length of the valley. |
Flat
dry grass land west of My Loc outpost. Tigers roamed this area feeding on small red deer. |
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The landscape
in Vietnam changed dramatically and the terrain in A-502's Area of Operation
was no exception. It changed remarkably from islands and white sandy
beaches to dense jungle . . . and from low water filled rice paddies to high,
sometimes cloud shrouded, mountain tops. The weather could be dry and
blazingly hot or wet and bone chillingly cold.
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Special Forces - The Silent Professionals |
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United States Army Special Forces
Detachment A-502.
