The TERRIFYING 5 Hours 900 Viet Cong Attacked 12 Green Berets In Vietnam.

It is almost half past two in the morning on 6 July 1964, at a Green Beret camp in the mountains of central Vietnam. Hidden in the tall grass, more than eight hundred enemy soldiers are already crawling toward the wire. In ninety seconds, a white phosphorus round will tear the roof off the mess hall, and the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War will be earned right here, in the dark. This is the Battle of Nam Dong. A twelve-man Special Forces A-team, one Australian warrant officer and a few hundred strikers, some of whom turned their guns inward the moment the shooting started. Capt. Roger Donlon wounded four times and still moving between pits. Kevin Conway, Gabriel Alamo and John Houston, who did not come home. The loudspeaker silenced by a single mortar round. And why every advantage the attackers had still was not enough. Every claim sourced. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📕 THE BOOKS FROM TRUE VIETNAM DOCS First-time readers get a lower price, applied automatically at checkout ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BOOK ONE · The Documented History of MACV-SOG in Vietnam ($7.99) The book mentioned in the video. Nam Dong sat on the border infiltration routes. Within a couple of years, the shadow war along those same trails became MACV-SOG, the most secret American operation of the conflict. The missions, the arsenal, the men and the myths, in six chapters. 👉 https://www.truevietnamdocs.com/sog BOOK TWO · The Documented History of the Gear of the Vietnam War ($8.99) Donlon pre-stocked every fighting position with ammunition because he could feel it coming. This book is the gear the war ran on, and the paper trail behind it: the rifle, the ruck, the radio, the rations, the armor and the boots. Nine chapters, 193 pages. 👉 https://www.truevietnamdocs.com/gear ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙 INTERVIEW CLIP Roger Donlon, Medal of Honor, courtesy of The American Legion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXb4bPEgw80 📚 FULL SOURCE LIST • Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Roger H. C. Donlon: https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/roger-h-donlon • Roger Donlon, Outpost of Freedom (1965), excerpt via The Saturday Evening Post: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/01/heroes-vietnam-battle-nam-d%C8%8Fng/ • Andrew J. Birtle, Advice and Support: The Middle Years, 1964-1965, U.S. Army Center of Military History • Robert H. Whitlow, U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Advisory and Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964 • Australian War Memorial, WO2 Kevin Conway • Virtual War Memorial Australia, Kevin Conway • Knights of Columbus, Columbia magazine, Service Above and Beyond (2022) • Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Pritzker Military Museum, West Point Center for Oral History: Roger Donlon interviews • Military Review, Medal of Honor: Col. Roger H. C. Donlon (2024) • Gerald Hickey, Window on a War Archival footage and images: National Archives, DVIDS, Wikimedia Commons. 🔔 Subscribe for more verified history instead of recycled myth. Independent work of history, not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense or any veterans' organization. #VietnamWar #NamDong #GreenBerets #RogerDonlon #MedalOfHonor #MilitaryHistory #Documentary