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COMBAT STORIES FROM Vietnam

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

8:45   |   It was an unlikely duel. A lone North Vietnamese with an AK-47 firing at an F-4 fighter jet coming around for pass after pass. Tony Coalson remembers watching that unfold at 3 AM, the first night of the Tet Offensive. What the news media did with the news of this widespread surprise attack altered the perception of the war back home. Part 3 of 3.

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