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Oct 30, 2020 · He and 26 of his fellow Marines would not be coming back that night, their patrol would live on, forever known as “The Ghost Patrol.” A Marine lieutenant lost his way around the area and accidentally led his Marines into a devastating ambush. Ridgeway was shot in the shoulder. Others took much more serious wounds.
Jan 21, 2020 · The engagement would be one of the deadliest days at Khe Sanh for the men of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, with 27 killed, one taken prisoner and 19 wounded, according to survivors and official reports.
Feb 25, 2012 · The patrol left at 0800 on a typical foggy February morning in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Near the trash pit the the patrol noted a few enemy emplacements, small trenches that encircled the trash pit.
In the first months of 1968, the siege of a remote Marine combat base at Khe Sanh in northwestern South Vietnam captivated Americans. Stories about the battle spilled across newspaper front pages and dominated television newscasts.
Feb 25, 2022 · Skipper Pipes talked about how bad things happen in war and how the Ghost Patrol was another of the long list of actions where Marines were attacked and nearly obliterated.
Feb 25, 2018 · When he talked about bodies and wounds, the gunfire and death, I shivered. Forty years later, when I first heard the fire fight of February 25th termed Ghost Patrol, I thought of cheesy movies and found the glib nature of the name offensive. But over the years, I’ve gotten used to it.
Jun 12, 2006 · On March 25, a Marine patrol was halted by heavy enemy machine-gun and mortar fire after traveling only 100 to 200 yards past the camp’s barbed wire perimeter. During the previous week, the enemy had managed to fire 1,500 rocket, artillery and mortar rounds at the Khe Sanh base.
It became known as the “Ghost Patrol.” On February 25, Company B received orders to mount a patrol outside the combat base’s perimeter wire in order to collect intelligence on the positions of North Vietnamese forces hidden below the hill.
Jul 8, 2017 · Ronald Ridgeway was “killed” in Vietnam on Feb. 25, 1968. The 18-year-old Marine Corps private first class fell with a bullet to the shoulder during a savage firefight with the enemy outside...
Feb 25, 2015 · Students and teachers at Pa Nho School, a satellite branch of Khe Sanh Primary School, now enjoy a computer, a reading table for ten students, ten reading lamps, four outdoor reading benches, a Cassette/CD player, four big bookshelves, and many new books. In December, over 130 young children enjoyed the new items.
