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Night was near when two great birds beat through the
clouds to squat upon the runway - two gaping-beaked, potbellied prehistoric
birds: messengers come now to carry off the fallen men of the day's battle.
Marines from Khe Sanh joining those other men killed in all other wars.
Then they were gone and it was night.
- Photo by; David
Douglas Duncan
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The monsoon clouds had lifted and the fixed wing aircraft
were delivering napalm around the perimeter of Khe Sanh.
- Photo by: 1stLt.
Bruce M. Geiger
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Fox holes and trenches always seemed miles away -
on the other side of the world - when rocket barrages began crashing upon
the Marines at Khe Sanh. The 26th Marines lived like prairie dogs,
in and out of their vast colony of bunkers.
- Photo by: David
Douglas Duncan
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Marines scattered like rats for the nearest
trench line or bunker and waited in sheer terror for the endless barrage
to be over.
- Photo by: David
Douglas Duncan
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Major Leonard R. Demko and the
crew of YK-13 were killed on Feb. 5, 1968 while executing a medical
evacuation in or near Hue City. The larger image of Maj. Demko is
of better quality.
- Photo submitted
by:
Kelly M. Lea (Maj. Demko's niece) |