Word: dongxoai
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...Dongxoai was buttoning up for the night. A few hundred yards down the road from the tiny district capital, 55 miles north of Saigon, 24 U.S. seabees and soldiers were resting after a hard day's work building a Special Forces fort. Suddenly the radio in the darkened home of the district chief crackled, and a sentry on Dongxoai's unfinished airstrip blurted: "The Viet Cong are all over." In an instant, everything came unbuttoned: Communist mortar fire sent hot shrapnel up the village streets, recoilless-rifle shells slammed home, the night air buzzed with bullets. Then...
...napalm through the Communist positions and lacing the underbrush with white phosphorus and cannon fire, the Viet Cong hung on. A relief force fluttered in by helicopter, but was quickly pinned down and wiped out by the attackers. Other chopper-borne rescuers were driven off by ground fire. Dongxoai seemed ready to fall...
...Along the defense perimeter lay twelve disemboweled children. An American, his body as black and twisted as a burnt match, sprawled among the debris in the Special Forces camp, his dog tags soldered to his bones and his charred pet monkey clinging, even in death, to his back. The Dongxoai church was cluttered with severed heads; bodies of South Vietnamese soldiers used as human shields lay bound and eviscerated...