Who remembers the Domino theory?

[pinboy3niner]

6. I remember too well

Both the USSR and the People's Republic of China were involved in the VN War and other Communist wars of liberation, as they were called.

Though the two countries had their rivlaries, both supported these wars with arms, equipment and funding.

Less well-known is the fact that the PRC also had military advisors with North Vietnamese Army units fighting in South Vietnam. I know only because 47 years ago, in December 1969, we (2/501 Infantry Battalion, 101st Airborne Division) fought an all-night battle against a North Vietnamese Army ( NVA) regiment that had crossed the DMZ on a mission to attack the city of Quang Tri.

After the battle the men had to dig out the enemy bunkers that had been blown with 90-mm recoilless rifles, digging through the body parts to recover enemy arms and equipment.

They recovered the body, radio, and codes of the PRC Army Major who was the advisor the the NVA regiment.

As a reward for our victory they choppered in ice cream from Quang Tri. In my platoon, we'd cached our rucks to maneuver lightly during the battle, so we ended up eating melted, soupy, sickeningly sweet ice cream out of our steel pots after having nothing to eat for 36 hours.