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COMBAT STORIES FROM Vietnam

Tony Coalson | 201st Aviation Company, 1st Field Force - Army

5:40   |   The helicopter came in fast, touched down for a moment, and the besieged special forces team ran for it. Pilot Tony Coalson remembers seeing a huge amount of enemy bodies in the concertina wire. On the way back, he asked them, what happened back there. "It was Custer's last stand." Part 2 of 2.

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