No Angels Came: The Battle of Dai Do, May-April 1968

Following the Tet Offensive, the forces of the South Vietnamese Communist’s NLF (National Liberation Front) were devastated. However, the war’s momentum had clearly shifted in favor of the Communists, and the military leaders in Hanoi strongly believed that maintaining the battlefield pressure against the US and ARVN forces was needed now more than ever. One of the first areas to feel the effects of the continued Communist offensive effort was in I Corps, just south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated North and South Vietnam.…