Full Metal Jacket

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Full Metal JacketFilm and History

+Destroying your identity

+Tet Offensive

+Portrayal of Vietnamese citizens

+Mickey Mouse Brigade

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+Battle Plans

Broadcasts from Hanoi spoke of great victories

Troops moved into Khe Sanh area

Westmoreland reinforced area as well

+Khe San January 21, 1968

NVA attacks the remote base

Operation Scotland

+The attack

North Vietnamese bombard the base with a massive artillery attack

The artillery hit the base ammunition stock

The shelling went on for days, turned into an artillery fight

+Supplying the base

Americans relied on C-130 Hercules Transport

These were used until one was hit

+Super Gaggle Americans attacked enemy

guns with fighter planes

Helicopters followed and dropped supplies

Took less than five minutes

+Strain of the siege

Constant shelling took its toll on men

Food was limited

Knee deep mud

Rats

+Saigon

Capital of South Vietnam

+Trenches and tunnels

NVA began digging trenches to try and breach Khe San

They came within 1200 yards of the camp

Only way to destroy them was bombing from B-52’s

+End of the Siege Bombings turned the battle around

Siege lifted after 77 days

Khe San based destroyed by Americans in June of 1968

+American Embassy in Saigon VC Commandos attack

embassy

Attack ultimately fails, but…

Media plays up attack on American soil

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+1969President Nixon

“Peace With Honor”

+Operation MenuBombing Cambodia

+1971

+1972

+Battle for Hue

Largest battle

City over run quickly

Viet Cong released thousands of prisoners

Liberated the city

+RECAPTURING HUE

+Recapture of HueBitter street fighting to recapture city

Mass graves