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364 heavy artillery rounds slam into Con Thien and Gio Linh
George T. Curtis (RIP. 9/17/2005)
Posted : 2003-09-10 16:58
Fascinating. Is there a URL we can utilize to read just a wee bit more?
Posted : 2003-09-10 19:40
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No url that I know of, however there are many outstanding books that discuss Con Thien.
This information comes from letters written home by a Marine at Con Thien.
George T. Curtis (RIP. 9/17/2005)
Posted : 2003-09-10 20:57
A Con Thien experience
One "url", Allan...a stirring account at:
http://www.vietvet.org/jhconthn.htm
whalvorsen
Posted : 2003-09-11 02:14
Bill,
Thanks.
There is a lot to read in the URL you supplied.
Hopefully, if any is pasted to this site it will be with permission and credit given to the author or source.
Posted : 2003-09-11 08:03
Maybe the MGySgt could give me the name of the Marine that wrote home. I would like to contact him and share some memories with him.
RickH
Posted : 2003-09-11 15:04
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The letters are from my cousin Stephen Hinckley, he was going to write the history of Con Thien.
Stephen was KIA at Con Thien on May 6th 1968. He had gathered all the history of Con Thien that he could even from before he got there and his letters are full of interesting facts. He was planning on being a career Marine , that is all we talked about when we were growing up. He was the smartest person I knew and I believe he would have written that book from his heart and would have shared an insight into the time at Con Thien that our history is missing.
Everyone seems to know about Khe Sanh and a few that were there know about Con Thien, but for the most part it is lost in history. According to his research,there was hand to hand combat at Con Thien in October 1967
George T. Curtis (RIP. 9/17/2005)
Posted : 2003-09-11 17:44
Alpha 3
I was at a base named Alpha 3, between Gio Lin and Con Tien with 1/3/3. Our Bn Co was KIA in the command bunker. That place was holy hell. Thanx to HMM 163 "Evil Eyes for keeping us supplied. We all headed for cover when the choppers came in. NVA Arty was sure to follow.
Mike Cone
Bong for the Cong
Posted : 2003-10-17 22:23
Con Thien
"The Hill of Angels", HAH! We used to have to low level up the dirt road from C-2 to Con Thien so that the remaining hill mass would mask us from the view of the NVA artillery spotters. Once we got in the zone, the dirt cloud we'd kick up would reveal our arrival, and we had about 15 seconds to do our business and get out before the rounds started coming in.
Posted : 2003-10-22 12:28
