White Christmas.....

[+daddyairplanes]

Hard to believe no one else posted about this.....

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-frequent-wind-begins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frequent_Wind

[+RAVEN]

I remember watching this happen on AFN.

[Capitaine Vengeur]

"Such a tragedy. They will think this was their victory. So this will become an American war. And the end will be the same, except for the numbers who will die before we get there."

- "We were soldiers", prophetic words by the Viet colonel at the end of the battle at Ia Drang, 1965, 10 years before...

 

 

[Do335]

And now there's this... significant gap between 'nam and 2nd place.

 

http://qz.com/394732/vietnam-overrun-by-communists-40-years-ago-is-now-the-no-1-fan-of-capitalism-on-the-planet/