400 Soldiers Ambushed by 5,000 NVA at 2 AM: Firebase Illingworth's 24 Hours of HELL - Vietnam War скачать в хорошем качестве

400 Soldiers Ambushed by 5,000 NVA at 2 AM: Firebase Illingworth's 24 Hours of HELL - Vietnam War

April 1st, 1970. Specialist David Sheets was a machine gunner at Firebase Illingworth—a hastily constructed artillery position in Tay Ninh Province that military experts called "indefensible" from the moment it was built. For thirteen days, 400 American soldiers watched the surrounding jungle, knowing that two full North Vietnamese Army regiments—approximately 5,000 enemy soldiers—were massing for an attack. At 2:20 AM on April 1st, those fears became reality when rockets slammed into the firebase followed immediately by human wave assaults from three directions simultaneously. For the next 24 hours, American soldiers fought one of the largest, most coordinated enemy attacks of the entire war—fighting in bunkers, firing artillery point-blank at enemy soldiers climbing over their positions, and making desperate stands when ammunition ran low and retreat was impossible. This is the complete first-person story of Firebase Illingworth—the strategic mistakes that put 400 Americans in an indefensible position, the intelligence warnings that were ignored, the 24 hours of continuous combat that killed 24 Americans and wounded 54 more, and the aftermath when survivors learned the firebase they'd bled for would be abandoned just three days after the battle. Experience what it meant to fight outnumbered 12 to 1, to watch friends die defending terrain that would be surrendered anyway, to survive combat and spend decades processing the trauma and guilt. From the first rocket impact at 2:20 AM to the final evacuation 72 hours later, this is the untold story of one of Vietnam's most brutal firebase battles. Subscribe for untold Vietnam War stories from frontline soldiers. New videos every day. #VietnamWar #FirebaseIllingworth #April1st1970 #1stCavalryDivision #NVAAssault #24HourBattle #400vs5000 #Outnumbered #FirebaseDefense #TayNinhProvince #CambodianBorder #PointBlankArtillery #MassAssault #TrueWarStory #VietnamVeterans