Surviving the Deadliest Artillery Siege in the Vietnam War – Firebase Con Thien

Описание: In September 1967, Corporal James O'Malley and Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines found themselves trapped on Firebase Con Thien—a barren hilltop just two miles south of the DMZ that became the target of the most intense artillery siege in Marine Corps history. For 52 days, North Vietnamese Army forces rained over 15,000 artillery and mortar rounds onto a position barely 400 meters across, launched multiple ground assaults, and tried everything possible to overrun the Marines defending what had become a symbol neither side could afford to lose.

This video tells the complete first-person story of what it was like to live underground in bunkers that collapsed regularly, to endure constant bombardment where death could come at any second from shells you never heard coming, to watch friends disintegrate from direct hits, to fight off nighttime infantry assaults while artillery fell danger-close to your own positions, and to wake up every morning knowing you might not survive the day but getting up anyway because that's what Marines do.

You'll experience the first devastating barrage that killed three Marines in seconds, the daily routine of survival in holes dug into red clay, the terror of ground assaults that breached the wire and turned trenches into killing zones, the massive firepower—40,000 artillery rounds and 4,000 air sorties—that kept the base from being overrun, and the psychological toll of 52 days when the only question was whether you'd be the next casualty. From the opening bombardment on September 7th to the final withdrawal on November 2nd, this is the unfiltered reality of the siege of Con Thien—told by a Marine who was there and carries those 52 days with him forever.

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