DMZ Rats

         Prologue

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1 September 1968

         Our First Operation: A Good Training Exercise

         A Sad Look North

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13 - 17 September 1968

         LZ Margo ... The Dead Went Last

         Remembering Margo (Staff Sergeant James F. Doner)

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16 September 1968

         Tragedy

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17 September 1968

         The "To Do" List

         "Spooky"

         The USS Repose

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18 - 30 September 1968

         Maps of the BLT's Area of Operations

         Terrain Along the Cam Lộ River

         The North Vietnamese Deserter

         Stairway to the Stars

         A New Mission ... In the DMZ
 

1 October 1968

         Landing Zone Tree Trunk

         Flanking Attacks

         Big Little People

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2 October 1968

         Enemy Armor

         "I Think You Are Surrounded"

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3 October 1968

         BB 62, The USS New Jersey

         Jungle Rot

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4 October 1968

         The Paris Peace Talks

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5 - 16 October 1968

         Enemy Artillery

         Understrength

         "Cease Fire"

         Malaria, Another Good Deal

         Fox Visits North Vietnam

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17 - 19 October 1968

         We Leave the DMZ

         Ocean View

         A Different Kind of War

 

         Epilogue

 

         A Marine Prayer (Captain John C. Cregan)

 

         Appendix: Strength, Arms and Equipment of SLF Alfa