Fire in the Que Son

In the pre-dawn hours of September 4, 1967, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines was on foot patrol in the Que Son Valley when the darkness erupted. Attacked from two sides by a superior North Vietnamese Army force, Delta's company commander was wounded within minutes. What followed was not a battle for ground. It was a battle for survival - measured in seconds, in squad-level decisions, in t...