Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
Language: English | Acsm | ISBN-10: 0451468082 | 2015 | 384 pages | 1 MB / 1 MB
In October 1969, Captain William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments–some 6,000 men–crossed the Cambodian border and attacked.