In 1966, now legendary American sniper Carlos Hathcock, nicknamed “Long Trang.” or “White Feather” by his Viet Cong enemy because he wore a noticeable white feather in his “boonie” cap, was on the hunt for a sniper nicknamed “The Apache” because of the horrible tortures the Vietnamese sharpshooter would commit on the bodies of captured Americans during interrogations. The Apache would inflict cuts on captured GIs and Marines and let them bleed out during questioning. GIs had reportedly had their eyelids cut off, parts of their flesh stripped off, and fingernails pulled.
Sergeant Hathcock and his observer, Captain John Burke, had seen the remains of one of these unfortunate men and vowed to stop the Apache’s reign of terror. In 1966, near Hill 55, close to the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Vietnam, Hathcock put an end to the Apache. He killed the woman with one shot – yes, “The Apache” was a woman, and there were thousands upon thousands of women fighting with the Viet Cong. This communist guerrilla force plagued the Americans in Vietnam until the end of US military involvement in Vietnam.
American involvement in Vietnam began in 1954, after the countries' former colonial owners, the French, were driven out as a result of the famous battle of Dien Bien Phu. The peace talks which followed that defeat resulted in the division of Vietnam into two countries: The communist “Democratic Republic of Vietnam,” or “North Vietnam,” and the non-communist “Republic of Vietnam,” or “South Vietnam.”
Though the North Vietnamese promised to abide by the agreements ending the war with the French, the almost immediately began to plan for the takeover of the South, but it wasn't until the early 1960s that their campaign to destabilize and eventually takeover the south really began. By 1961, the US government was worried that without more American aid, in the form of money, equipment and initially, a select few military advisers, the South Vietnamese government would fall and the communists would take over.
In 1965, it was clear that just sending money, equipment and a few advisers was not going to save South Vietnam, and American military involvement escalated. At its high-point, there were over a half a million American troops “in country.”
Some of the people they would be fighting – on the front lines, behind the lines and in the media, were women.
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Дата на публикация: 21 юли, 2023
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