2/503 VIETNAM Newsletter - November 2012, Issue 47

November 2012, Issue 47 Contact: [email protected] See all issues to date at the 503 rd Heritage Battalion website: http://corregidor.org/VN2-503/newsletter/issue_index.htm _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OPERATION MACARTHUR, THE BATTLES AT DAK TO Dedicated to the men who fought, survived and died during the battles at Dak To, November 1967 “On a dusty knoll near Dak To, survivors of Hill 875 stood in salute. Before them, arranged in the Army tradition, were 98 pairs of boots – one pair for each man of the Second Battalion, 173d Airborne Brigade, who died on that hill and nearby ridges. In all, the month-long battle of Dak To had taken the lives of 280 Americans – and 1,641 North Vietnamese. As the battalion commander read aloud names of the dead, a sergeant who had lost four buddies collapsed and sat weeping in the red dust.” 2/503d VIETNAM Newsletter / November 2012 – Issue 47 Page 1 of 1 25