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donald hillegas
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Longview
wrote on March 24, 2021
at
9:59 pm
like to contact anyone that served in a company 52nd signal battalion in Con Tho from aug 68 to aug 69.....I was atelephone repairman and later sent to Saigon for telephone key system training ...sent back to Can Tho and helped install all push button systems in all the headquarters in the city...anyone remembering the Tet offensive of 69 when Can Tho got overrun by VC and we lost 19 gis that night...I was on guard duty...and remember it well...lost our m60 guy.....his head was blown off by a 50 caliber bullet from one of our own towers taken over by vc sappers....communications were shut down and me and buddy Carl Ek were sent to the tower with three grunts to restore communications....after a minor fire fight we killed the VC and I repaired the wires and communications were restored....Ill never forget the smell of flesh gunpowder and the burning helicopters in the distance....
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