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The article narrates the horrible ambush of a two-boat U.S. Navy patrol by the Vietcong on May 24, 1967. Each boat had a four-man crew with patrol officer, Lieutenant Charles Donald Witt in the lead boat. As the boats drifted down the Ham Luong River toward a channel several machine guns...
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