FRONT LINE ACTION Marine Officer Reportds Battle With Vietcong
FRONT LINE ACTION Marine Officer Reportds Battle With Vietcong
A dramatic description from the scene of a recent U.S. Marine search and clear mission by Marine Lieut. Dick Neckline. Under murderous Vietcong fire the young Marine never pauses as he describes the action of flushing a Vietcong regiment from its jungle caves and fastnesses. Truly Heroic! In a Vietnamese village a Marine Officer, Lieut. Dick Nicklin standing with a microphone in hand describing the action of the soldiers, the sounds gun fire of attacking North Vietnamese. He reports there is going be a very methodical search of the Vietnamese grass huts that are behind him. Marines walking very slow up to a grass hut. Vietnamese woman holding her baby on her hip. A soldier is speaking with his commanding officer, pointing. Soldiers are moving around looking for young men who can be members of the Vietcong and for tunnels and caves. In the distance you can see the exploitations from motor fire and you can hear the sound of the bullets and the rapid firing of a machine gun. You can see something is on fire in the distance. Two soldiers step into the frame and for now they are just observing. You hear this long round of machine gun fire, you see a soldier running through the trees and then you see a Vietnam home hit by motor fire, and burst into flames. Marine Officer, Lieut. Dick Nicklin explains how the soldiers thought that they were in a rest period with nothing much happening when all hell broke loose 10-minutes ago.