“The North Vietnamese had the largest headquarters complex there I have ever seen,” he said. Colonel Weldon Honeycutt, whose 101st Airborne Division unit took the heaviest casualties, has no doubt why the North Vietnamese put up such fierce resistance and why it was so important to dislodge them. Senator Edward Kennedy said in Washington this week the assault was “senseless.”Īnother question mark is why the North Vietnamese – estimated at 1,500 strong – clung to the slopes in spite of heavy artillery and air strikes which tore deep gashes in the mountain jungle. God, it was awful to see your buddies like that.” Many of the troops are puzzled over what they called “World War Two” tactics of ground attack used to capture the hill in an age of computerised bombing. Sergeant Butler Johnson, aged 26, described the final assault: “There were lots of guys, screaming guys, cries of agony.
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