![]() "Here comes the old son of a bitch Willy DePuy who loves to fight," said 1st Lt. ![]() DePuy's two stars were painted on the helicopter's nose. DePuy, the new, aggressive commander of the 1st Infantry Division. THE THWACKA-THWACKA OF A HUEY HELICOPTER ANNOUNCED THE ARRIVAL OF Maj. As we pick up the action, it is dusk on April 10, Easter Sunday, in a jungle clearing. ![]() Wilson reconstructed Charlie Company's ill-fated mission as part of his new book, Mud Soldiers. Although Charlie Company was usually 291 men strong, 157 men were in the rear or out of action the remaining 134 soldiers prepared to snake through the dense jungle in search of D-800, a powerful Viet Cong battalion triple the size of the pared-down Charlie Company. ![]() The company, consisting of four platoons of infantry, was poised to engage in Operation Abilene, a strategic move in the escalating Vietnam war that involved sending small units of American soldiers to search out and destroy Viet Cong units. In April 1966 a troop of American soldiers known as Charlie Company was perched near the village of Xa Cam My, 40 miles east of Saigon. ![]()
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