The Battle Of Khe Sanh

[@joshgulledge5662]

I’ve had the absolute privilege in hearing every hardship, as well as the ( hard to believe) pleasing moments. Of the siege, on hill 881S. My grandfather, Franklin ( Uncle Frank) A. Gulledge. Was a honorable CH-47 pilot as the rank of Major, in the HMM 364 Purple Foxes. I’ve been very lucky to hear the highs and lows of the men who, so fearlessly held their ground. Even being bombarded with non-stop shelling. These men, are my heroes! Simper Fi.

[@joshgulledge5662]

My trip to Mr. Dabney and his wife Virginia’s house. Long after the war. ( At this time he was Colonel Dabney.) It was an absolute, and pure understanding of the goings on at Hill 881 S. God bless you all who hold the Corps most highest values. Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

[@lenape751]

My Father , Sgt. Gregory Randoll served there .

[@dannynrny473]

My respects to him and to all other Vets

[@-09445]

My Brother was There at That Time A US Marine Stationed First at Da Nang Then Went to Dong Ha Marine Base AND Would Travel From Dong Ha To Khe Sanh Frequently Because Dong Ha was A Supply Base..They We're Only 12 miles From the DMZ..They We're Always in Danger At All Times..They We're To Close To North Vietnam...My Brothers is Gone Know ..Died of Agent Orange Dioxin ...But if He Was Here..He Would Like This Flick.. It Would Bring Back Solemn Memories About His Commaredes That Fought in Khe Sanh.. Because They Also Tried to Attack Dong Ha...Thank you For This Trifling Memory..🇺🇲⚔️🪖..Semper Fi..Marines

[@tanletran7270]

The South Vietnamese relief troops included the crack 1st Airborne Brigade commanded by Col.Le Quang Luong who later became a Major General and Commander of the Airborne Division

[@TheLeadSled]

As a combat veteran myself I have always held the men that fought in the Vietnam War in the highest esteem. In many cases like at Khe Sanh and Ia Drang they were outnumbered and outgunned (except for air power) and they held there ground. The war I fought in (Iraq) pales in comparison to what these men did in Vietnam, and might I add the women who worked hard to patch up our soldiers.

[@jayo3074]

Didn't you guys invade another country? You killed a million people

[@dolantp]

Visited the site in 2008. It was overgrown with vegetation and nothing there that is recognizable. There was a small Vietnamese museum at the site detailing the “defeat” of the US at Khe San. The “victors” write the history.

[@gabriellarrotta8636]

You are damn right, Americans keep doing it all the time. Remember WWII? Soviets carried the brunt of it, though 'Band of brothers' and Tommy Hanks keep rewriting history, ah! and Rambo keeps winning this war at least after the 80's. Interesting.

[@Spade_1917]

The NVA did their job in distracting forces to the highlands

[@DeDe-dq6kj]

It was a defeat.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

that's also a saying here in Vietnam. victors be kings, losers be enemies

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

@@DeDe-dq6kj won all the battles, lost the whole war

[@davidrobinson8337]

Before Khe Sanh. There was Lang Vei. ODA-101. Most Decorated Special Forces unit for their stand with Bru Dega tribesmen,,,Twenty four of them were there ,One man was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading three repeated counter attacks to rescue those trapped in the camp...

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

The nva who assaulted the south vietnamese sector of the base were decimated by artillery and b52 strikes. Some divisions were vaporized and nothing left to know they ever existed

[@dannyboy2750]

I'm pretty sure they hid in the tunnel system while bombing was going on. They were a worthy adversary. I'm sure some got "vaporized" but the majority just waited it out.

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

@@dannyboy2750 they were making a tunnel and trench system towards the south Vietnamese sector of the base and sent a b52 attack really close to the line and completely vaporized whole divisions m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqvXaHeohs9rbdU 🎥 Battlefield: Vietnam - Siege of Khe Sanh (SP) - KZbin

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

@@dannyboy2750 those who survived were so demoralized they couldn't make the assault they were boxed in by artillery and killed

[@thanglethanh2112]

@@enlightenedwarrior7119 What the US government announced to the public was only an exaggeration to hide its defeat. The North Vietnamese army lost more than 5,000 men at that time, but they forced the Americans to withdraw in April and declared victory in July of the same year 1968 while capturing the base.

[@thanglethanh2112]

@@enlightenedwarrior7119 The Americans are demoralized, not the Vietnamese, don't be delusional.

[@jamesalexander3530]

The battle may have turned the other way if Giap had major air support from China. It was destiny, grit and superb American air power that saved the day.

[@JJM-qf8dz]

Peace Through Fire Superiority. USMC 2ND MarDiv

[@olderolderman4603]

I'm 55years old . I was 19 then my quotation has alway been why ? There here now.

[@ronnieterry9275]

We never fought the war the correct way. Let me explain first mistake the President micro managed the air war. He never gave the air force the free hand to bomb the enemy effectively. Many times the air force went to designated targets. Often the air force would fly over missiles, anti aircraft weapons, and other weapons. Often the designated targets were bridges, power plants and not the military weapons that were going south. The air war should have been very intensely toward the military planners and their living quarters, ports and factories should have also been destroyed. In other words destroy the enemy preventing the war materials from being delivered to south Vietnam. Second don't send soldiers into dense jungles all that was doing was we were time and again walking into ambush many times this happened over and over. Stopping the flow of war material would greatly reduce the number of casualties and enemy soldiers. These two things would have made a huge difference in the enemy's ability to continue the gorilla war effort.

[@paultheobald5561]

Shit were we're u, definitely not in D C

[@JaxRwld]

Peace and Love to everyone on this Veterans Day.

[@briannotafan3368]

i was 12 yrs old watching it on walter cronkike news never wanting to turn 18

[@briannotafan3368]

but inlisted anyways at 22 yrs i wanted to be a ranger

[@obuohsokadbatuh1831]

Khe Sanh was nothing more as bait for the NVA. NVA took the bait and they were turn to ashes. I was only 6 years old in 1966 ,listening to the news on a radio, no Tv at date time. Sarawak ,a state in Nalaysia only have tv in 1974. I understood nothing. When war ended in 1975 I was 15 years old. I knew about the war by reading newspaper. One man, not far from my village named his son Westmoreland. Im from Malaysia.

[@Spade_1917]

Opposite way around, Khe Sahn was bait for MACV - and it worked!

[@rustyshackleford9588]

Their sand table construction is A+++

[@johnsimpson3240]

Who is working the focus? They should remaster stuff like this so you don't go blind watching it.

[@DESIBOY-fe7nm]

Air power saved them from being overrun.

[@brandonstonestone1795]

That was the intention

[@stevenm.7212]

Something interesting I read recently is that the scenario to defend Khe Sanh was put through military wargame at the time. It was found in the wargame that the Marines made a decision to withdraw and NOT defend Khe Sanh. MACV Command determined that was not acceptable, and lead to the reinforcement of the base with additional Marines, other units, and artillery. Presidential order was to hold Khe Sanh at all cost - it could not become a Dien Bien Phu. The thinking from Westmoreland was to draw the enemy in and employ tactical nuclear weapons to decimate the enemy which would achieve a significant military victory - several reasons as to why they didn't. We now know that the defense of Khe Sanh resulted in the most intense bombing in a area ever seen in the history of war. In other words, the amount of bombs dropped within a mile of the Khe Sanh combat base was the equivalent of 5 Hiroshima size bombs.

[@tanletran7270]

The South Vietnamese sector was manned by the 37th Ranger Battalion commanded by Captain Hoang Pho . They were forced to station outside the defence perimeter of Khe Sanh Base because the paranoid American Marines did not trusted the experienced Vietnamese Ranger who excelled themselves & stood their ground

[@ronnieterry9275]

I have wondered why we didn't destroy the communist war machine before it left the ports and factories and the enemy military forces in and around Hanoi. LBJ micro managed the bombing of the North thru target selection thus preventing the air force from destroying the war machine before the supplies started down the trails and roads into South Vietnam. This war should have been over within six to nine month. That is a fact. The quality of bombs that were dropped around k Sane would have brought the war machine in North Vietnam to a halt. Thus stopping the North Vietnamese agression on the South Vietnamese.

[@charles3751]

I agree. Not destroying Hanoi and the of Haiphong simply extended the war. In the end it led to countless unnecessary deaths.

[@gordonlandreth9550]

President Johnson was afraid that it would start WW 3 if we sank a Russian freighter .

[@stewballsrbig]

Cpl. Doug Hillon my good friend was killed there !

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@marilynvenden4229]

my husband was there

[@dae8053]

marilyn venden Thank your husband for me for his service .Thank you for being there for him. Woman and family also suffered a lot at home, when you husband returns a different man. Maybe in your case he wasn’t affected by war like the other men. But whatever the case I Thank you both.

[@lamnguyen-uj6lh]

marilyn venden hat down to him , thx you for his services ,

[@arturomariano5351]

Salute’

[@herbcanter2614]

How do you lose a war with that fire power?

[@alstahl8574]

Semper Fi

[@paltryengineer]

thankyou for posting

[@briannotafan3368]

they talked about c-rats yeach good stuff was john wayne bars & pound cake sometimes a box of chlicklets 2 ea per box

[@123456Masteraceman]

Good video ty for posting

[@hereef1]

In the end, the NVA proved the spirt of the Vietnamese people was greater than the USA’s technology.

[@jamielacourse7578]

Why was this important? Because if this and other battles like it weren't fought the whole of Europe & Asia would be red. Life today would be very different.

[@gordonlandreth9550]

Glad that you get it Jaime . At that time , a line in the sand had to be drawn against worldwide Communist expansion . That line ended up being in Vietnam . It was a nasty , brutal war that we had to fight because of all the promises made and treaties signed . Mismanaged ? Highly , but our guys did a great job overall . Thank a Vietnam Vet today !

[@RonaldReaganRocks1]

Wow! The communist Vietnamese took a pretty sound ass whooping at Khe Sanh! The Marines lost 244, while the Vietnamese lost 15,000? That is a 60:1 kill ratio. That is epic! And the liberal media was working with the communists to try to tell us that Khe Sanh was a loss? What the? We handed Giap a severe ass whooping on that one.

[@Firefightersrule999]

what is the song at 27:00?

[@nangtrinh6049]

Sống mãi ma tham vọng bài học nhớ đời

[@haihonguyen4914]

MỸ ko muốn đánh nó mà đánh thì ba đời nhà bố mầy cũng ko còn

[@krusamweldingstudio276]

That's Big Trap for NVD

[@garybiggs9010]

The only failure of the USA in Vietnam was to not have flattened Hanoi.

[@dannyboy2750]

This reminds me of movie day in high school history class back in the 80's. Same narration type and feel.

[@markvickers3488]

Un - American 'Americans' were practically GLOATING over the possibility of death & defeat in Vietnam. Still makes me sick.

[@RonaldReaganRocks1]

I agree! Get louder and tell everyone.

[@mantia39]

OORAH MARINES!!!

[@jeffsmith2022]

Why on Earth would you want to set up a base in a valley?...Was it somewhat like repeating the same mistakes the French made?...Help me understand...

[@jimbruneau6769]

Base was on Highway 9, a Major supply route from Laos and China. Roads go thru valleys, not up and over steep hills...

[@hatecarrot2219]

Also base was built around the airstrip, you can't built airstrip on hills plus american occupied the hills unlike the French

[@DouglasUrantia]

My brother was nearby at Phu Bai, he told me the war was planned to be lost by the USA. It was a criminal sacrifice of 57,000 US soldiers.

[@augustoneto8746]

o bicho pegou

[@123456Masteraceman]

GO MARINES on MEMORIAL DAY 2012

[@คฑาวุธเรืองบุญรบ]

Want friend all - not ,War

[@allenj908]

Video doesn't show how the 1 st. Cavalry was sent there to save the marines.

[@jessemiles1441]

Save ? The battle was over that's why they were sent !!

[@dennisjoiner4164]

I was there. Air Cav stood our lines while we started the break out battle of Operation Pegasus. Bravo Co, Second Platoon, Third Squad. Lt. Dillon was our CO. We saved our selves but appreciated the Air Cav.

[@gordonlandreth9550]

They did show the Cav coming in , but Operation Pegasus was mainly to open up Hi - way 9 . Charlie had pretty much left the area at that point .

[@rolandohistoria3532]

All model of Rufino Javier PMT 🇵🇭 UNICEF by Jim Tuan luko luko hindi pa matanda by Jr Tolentino sa pagkawala ng SR(Ate Berna & John Bates) Delta motors by Eduardo Silverio & Joselito dela Merced pasong tamo office Alabang assembly plant Vargas (bridge)Wala ng kumakaway Jai Alai by Santos in general Mapua institute of technology is my ladder from Anyang ☯️ laki sa hirap by Mariano Historia & General Vienbenido Felix PMA save my kisses Wakas Bulacan from Mike & Christine Rendez NASA San Juan mission from A to Z with respect from Goerge Fong (A&W)

[@HoangTran-ll7fj]

Tui binh luan na o thay ken ka sao.

[@paulwilliams8555]

Kayshon was as strategic and sad as pork chop Hill

[@melbourne-heat.69-71]

The whole war was about money Lady Bird Johnson's family owned Bell Helicopter Company and her and Lyndon Johnson made millions and millions off of stock alone..My friend Mickey was there at that very spot I got in country.. 1970 when i came home in "73" he was a mess he would start screaming at the top of his lungs stop the bombing his eyes were basically bulging out of the socket he was holding his ears all the way to the VA hospital he was constantly drunk got a brand new car totaled it he probably totaled 4 cars drunk by the time they took his license away,Just sucks to see him that way before Vietnam he was a great guy when he came home that war turned him psychotic you would never know if he was going to cry or cut your throat with a knife he passed away before he was 45 years old RIP..Mickey F.. all them deaths were on Lyndon Johnson hands and Nixon and neither of them gave a shit..Now I spent a lot of my time putting little American flags at people's grave sites agent orange is killing everybody if you make it till your 60 years old you're lucky... Marine Corps combat engineer from 1970 to 1973..18th engineer Brigade Semper Fi.. to all the men and women that served no matter what branch of service you were in I would do it all over again..But not their way Westmoreland did everything ass-backwards before I would be a Snowflake and run to Canada or go to jail.. the Patriots of today are long gone...Trump 2020 or this world is fucked..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@MrRyinoyea]

Trumps killed American hegemony more than any president who served previous. The Cold War is not over it has only shifted. No America, no freedom.

[@richardbowers3647]

Another truth is that Lyndon Johnson put the US in debt to fund the war, which has caused problems up to today.

[@faceripper77]

Patriots are still here but were fewer these days

[@ongquang1425]

Mĩ dù có hùng cường thế nào đi nữa thì trên lãnh thổ của Việt Nam họ cũng ko thể thắng nổi

[@johndmerrt3794]

Lmao....run your mouth.

[@thahuong669]

Vietnam war Americans army related,,, haha 😜😜😜

[@jondoherty3884]

Why defend a place cost the lives of good men Then just leave it Never understood this warNever kept the real estate which fought for The American services paid heavy price in people for this tactiac

[@gordonlandreth9550]

You are right , the war was mismanaged in many ways .

[@thopham8846]

Khe sanh sàn đấu giữa Hoa kỳ và Việt nam hoa kỳ bị. Việt nam cho đo ván

[@aibang9798]

Bị mỹ thả bom vậy chưa sợ còn nói dốc

[@thopham8846]

@@aibang9798 thực tế mỹ đã thua điều này ai ai trên toàn thế giới biết chỉ có Quốc ngu ngơ không biết thôi bom mỹ nhiều nhưng không dọa được việt nam

[@thopham8846]

@@aibang9798 mày tưởng mỹ ném một quả thôi sao còn tụi bay bọn tao nổ máy hon da tụi bay tưởng là tăng T54 chạy tụt quần cười vãi đái hahaha

[@HoangTran-ll7fj]

Do van ma gphong vn let dit qua my lamgi .nhuc qua.

[@thopham8846]

@@HoangTran-ll7fj hiện này người việt sang mỹ có số ít là tội phạm còn phần nhiều là du lịch danh nghiệp di tìm đối tác làm ăn rất bình thường mà lúc trước khác bây giờ khác theo thời theo thế hòa bình rồi vnch bây giờ không theo thời cuộc không biết mình là ai .hay chọc ngoáy người khác chả nhẻ cứ ôm cái hận 30-4 thôi sao

[@pilotactor777]

Terrible propaganda doccie.

[@pilotactor777]

Mostly inaccurate American propaganda. Does not represent the true disaster that Khe Sahn was. Case in point 19:18. Morale was not good. This whole video makes out that this was a ' walk in the park'.

[@LouSaudi]

So how did it go ? Want some more B52 propaganda? Your so freakin stupid, get some education then talk !

[@RonaldReaganRocks1]

Yeah, but you Democrat commies and your allies in North Vietnam did indeed get an ass whooping from my boys in the Marine Corps, You lost. Face it.

[@nick9463]

What a waste of American tax payer money!

[@CrashandTrash596]

Says the gutless wonder who never left home. Never did anything dangerous. He just sat at home and posts a video about his little doggies pretty eyes. You make me sick