Chieu Hoy Sapper Demonstration
ROBERT MOORE'S PHOTOS - PART 7
Alpha Battery 6/27th Artillery
January 1969 to March 1970
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(All Photos By Robert Moore)
"From April to August of 1969, the base perimeter at Quan Loi was hit repeatedly with North Vietnamese Army - NVA ground probes. The element which seemed to always lead these attacks was a special unit of the NVA called Sappers. These Sappers would crawl through the concertina wire on the base perimeter and then either make way for the other troops or wreck havoc on their own. Following a ground probe in May of 1969, several of these individuals surrendered under the "chieu hoi" program...One of them "volunteered" to demonstrate the techniques used to infiltrate our concertina wire. I was not really invited to watch, but I thought it would be interesting, so I went." Gary Graham
This demonstration may not
have been a lot of fun for the NVA Chieu Hoy soldier but it certainly blew away
any thoughts that we were "safe" behind that concertina perimeter. JWavra
"Chieu Hoy Leaflets" - Courtesy
Marc Levy for a sampling of leaflets distributed by the U.S. Army in Vietnam to
entice NVA soldiers to surrender.
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