Photo was taken around late '66 or early '67.
Austrailian bunker in the rubber plantation at Binh Ba. This village was located south of us and North of the Austrailian Task Force. This bunker and others like it at the rubber plantation was a show piece of a well fortified compound.
I'm standing in the back ground with a family in the village of Binh Gia. The young lady in the center in blue was the Bac Si ( Doctor ). Her family was proud that she came back to serve as the doctor. She may have actually been a nurse, but everyone called her Bac Si.
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* Foot note.....December, 1964 - January, 1965
2 January. A six day battle around the village of Binh Gia ends with a clear ARVN defeat. Two hundred of their best troops are killed and three hundred are wounded. Five Americans are killed and three are declared missing.
This was the housing quarters for the ARVN and Popular Force troops stationed at Duc Thanh. Their families would stay with them. The mother is washing dishes. The kitchen is just to her right. Everything was done squatting down. Behind the girls is where they all slept. The girl in forground is making a broom
One of the two older girls was burned over a large portion of her body.The medic and I did what we could for her and got her evacuated on a helicopter. We heard that she and another young boy we also treated died later on.
First Vietnam POW to be executed while in captivity.
The story of Army Ranger SSgt HAROLD GEORGE BENNETT,
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