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Marshall Carter

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The value of the Medivac chopper standing by at high altitude was proven when a pilot on a supporting fire mission had to bail out. Marshall Carter was able to call down the Medivac unit and extract the pilot, who surely would have been a POW. Part 4 of 5. (6:00)

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Three of Captain Marshall Carter's men who were on a fateful raid with him, went to the battalion commander to tell him what Captain Carter had done during the operation. That conversation worked out well for him, much better than the conversation he had years later with a reporter from WGBH. (8:49)

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After a break for grad school, Marshall Carter returned for a second Vietnam tour but this time he was an adviser to the South Vietnamese Marines. He speaks highly of them but says that Gen. Westmoreland's neglect of South Vietnamese forces contributed to their eventual defeat. (5:27)

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Marshall Carter's battalion commander, Van D. Bell, taught him two valuable lessons which helped make him a successful rifle company commander: aggressiveness and use of supporting arms. Those lessons helped him a lot but nothing could help higher level decision makers who did not realize that Ho Chi Minh was Vietnam's George Washington. (4:05)

Marshall Eubanks

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Marshall Eubanks was determined to go to Vietnam. He felt personally called to duty after going to college during the turbulent sixties. Also, his father, who was a career military man, had died there. He went to flight school in his senior year of ROTC and, after graduation, became a helicopter pilot. (5:40)

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The Mekong Delta was hot and it smelled peculiar, especially where the locals were making their fish sauce. Marshall Eubanks was a Huey pilot who arrived there late in the war. There were a lot of river tributaries and canals and the villages were often built on poles. (5:28)

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By the end of 1971, all US combat troops were gone from the Mekong Delta area, but helicopter pilot Marshall Eubanks was kept busy transporting ARVN troops. The procedure was to hover just above the tall grass and the men would jump out. There was no way to know how far down the ground actually was, so sometimes thy didn't want to go. (4:49)

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The 114th Assault Helicopter Company was based at a small airfield in Vinh Long. Huey pilot Marshall Eubanks was sometimes officer of the guard for night time security, not a lot of fun. Neither was it fun to thoroughly clean all the aircraft when the unit had to stand down and prepare for return to the States. He didn't have enough time in country to leave, so he went to another outfit. (6:18)

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The monsoon weather was awful but Huey Pilot Marshall Eubanks flew right through it. He had to fly low enough to watch the ground beneath him until he got through the storm. That was scary enough. Then there were night assaults that were lit up by spotlights, which made you a sitting duck. (4:16)

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Flying out of Can Tho, helicopter pilot Marshall Eubanks supported the American advisory teams in the Mekong Delta. Transport, supply Medevac, anything they needed. He also made runs to Cambodia to support the American embassy and, on one of these, he was treated to a feast at Angkor Wat. (3:40)