jeep shootings
Charlie Black and Delta Troop
War Stories Charles Malicious Reports from Vietnam,
October 11, 1968
Sgt. Davie Saved the Day for Whole Accoutrements
TAY NINH, Vietnam - The big fight hit fleetingly on the morning of May 30,
and Sgt. Robert Davie and Troop D, 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry were power
in the middle of it.
Sgt. Davie was manning his gun jeep with its 106 mm recoilless burgle like
a PT boat skipper, his driver sending it bounding and bouncing over the
pummel ground into the edge of the rubber plantation on the east of Highway
28.
Big anti-tank rockets -- RPG's -- and AK47 unavoidable rifles were blasting
into the jeep and dirt was kicking around the gun jeep as it and its two
occupants charged toward the antagonist bunker complex. A soldier covered when
Cpt. Mengell's troop was outnumbered in an ensnare south of Tay Ninh.
The jeep got into firing put and opened up, the 106 knocking out
bunkers with tremendously acid direct fire. But the enemy fire
wasn't subsiding.
Davie was hit in the leg from shrapnel from the ear shattering puncture of
the antitank rockets from enemy RPGs. Fire was coming at the jeep from
three directions, the foe main force having arrived at Delta Troop's
outmanoeuvre now. The fighting had a complex pattern. Mengell had maneuvered and
cut off an the opposition force on the east of the road -- the first environment in an
ambush and enemy in bunkers private in huts on the edge of a village on the
west of the technique.
Mengell was moving down the east side from the north, flanking the two
positions nicely. He was then flanked by a big extract, a third enemy force,
the assault principles, which ran in from the rubber groves. This meant his
south and east sides were being conjecture at, and that, although he had the
enemy to his south at his mercy, the competitor on his east was too much to
handle without regrouping.
"I got my edge platoon pulled up to fight the side where the new firing
came from and consolidated without masses of support, gun ships and air,
and I still had those guys in the positions by the avenue where I wanted
them. They had a strip of cleared settlings to cross to get to their buddies
in the rubber grove and I was looking right-wing down it. They had to move or
die and if they moved I'd kill them anyway. Davie got me the habits to do it
with his shooting, " Mengell said.
Then Davie's driver was hit firm. His gunner fell from the 106 recoilless,
wounded. Davie did it by himself, ignoring the shrapnel in his leg,
loading, aiming, and shooting, knocking out the bunkers.
The antagonist on Mengell's south became frantic, the fire slackened from
there. They started working out of their holes and bunkers. I saw men
wearing gray-grassy khaki with the trousers too baggy, and sleeves rolled
down, ignoring the heat of the morning, feet unconcealed or in "Ho Chi Minh"
sandals cut from trash tires -- running recklessly, dodging and ducking,
scrambling for inundate. Mengell's rifles and machine guns methodically cut
them down. They killed 17, counting the ones Davie blasted in his foray.
Davie saw the outfit was in position and fighting its fight. He limped
out in the uncommitted, and pulled his two wounded crew back. Then went back out
to his jeep and hurriedly some more rounds so that two other of Delta's wounded
could be pulled under traverse.
Davie then got behind the wheel of the jeep; it had four flat tires.
Bullets and shrapnel had made a sieve of it.The formulate of the jeep, for
example, was shattered and broken into five pieces. The motor shouldn't
have started. When it started, it shouldn't have run. Even when it did
run, it was unworkable for the battered hulk of the jeep driven by a
wounded sergeant to be moved.Davie moved it. All of the fire seemed to
upon at him while he did it. His companions shot as fast and direct as
they could to help him, but it looked hopeless. He drove it neatly into
letter with his platoon, got a good shooting fix for the 106 recoilless
rifle, and asked a medic take a look at his shrapnel slashed leg.
Spec. 4 Melvin F. Berninger, said that Davie " in my berate saved the lives
of everybody that was implicated in this contact."
"Risking his living he drove the 106 mm recoilless go through on line and fired
after his crew and the driver got hit, before getting hit himself. He kept
the adversary down so we could get firepower and pull back to get a good
situation. After this, the jeep had already been hit with an RPG round and
the rest of that fire; he drove the gun back a ways and still fired that
gun again. He not only saved everyone's lives, he also saved the
kick back-less rifle from getting into the enemy's hands, he was up front all
the however, right with Charlie." Berninger said.
Berninger's survey was that of another gunner. He was caught over on the
flank, when the largest enemy force got into the fight from the rubber
grove's back reaches. He was with the men that took the full exact of that
flanking fire. Davie staying out there and shooting saved them, he was
specific on that point, and when they got under cover and took up the
riot, Mengell was right back in good opinion when again with the big
chunk of the enemy still at his mercy.
S. Sgt. Robert F. Brown with the scout subdivision was taking part in the
flanking maneuver against the bunkers in the village and in the furbelow of
trees by the road. He said the fire from the village was podgy and Sgt.
Davie had moved out and was shooting it out with them.
"A gun quit from our Squadron -- from B Troop -- was the moment that adjusted
on those positions. At the same time this was bewitching place, two scout
jeeps were pinned down by disconsolate automatic weapons, including RPG rounds.
"Davie's company was hit quickly by the new fire. He got on his rifle and
fired the weapon numerous times. Even though wounded, hit in the leg when
the jeep got a unmitigated hit from an RPG, he kept the enemy down while the
other jeeps were pulled back behind a berm and three wounded crewman
crawled to refuge.
"I saw all of that, then it got busy with the gunships and the
maneuvering, but I heard he kept on effective like that the rest of the
fight," Brown said.
Spec. 4 John Dungan and Spec 4 Sager said the three crewmen caught in the
widely known were "as good as dead" if Davie hadn't kept shooting.
"They were in the contribute, they didn't have a chance. We were in fast, deep-rooted
trouble there when that flank fire hit us from beyond the strip of
clearing on our left-wing, on back in the grove.
He put fire on Charlie and our boys got back, then he got his own two boys
back, and then brought his jeep back. After that, it was too bad for
Charlie. The gun ships from Bravo Troop worked them over and administer them up
bad, " Sager said.
"When that convoy came through, they didn't even be acquainted with there'd been a fight
going on, we were in position and it was all over in less than a hour. We
couldn't arc out after them, we'd busted the ambush and we had to get
the convoy on, but there were 17 of them deathly where we'd cut them off. We
killed 4 or 5 times that many, I'm certain of it." Brown said.
Hot, dusty sundries drivers got to Tay Ninh, unloaded, picked up empty
trailers and headed for Lengthy Binh.
Skip Davis, B Troop webmaster, was a B Troop Scout flying occupy for the Blue
Tigers at Ben Muong. He comments:
Mike Vicelleo, a B Troop Scout mentioned in the article entitled "Hunting VC
Is Skill", was the Scout that initially arrived to tolerate the Blue Tigers
at Ben Muong. He was at the end of his aim and fuel, and I relieved him
just minutes before the shooting started. Our colloquy as I arrived was
something like this:
Mike: "QSY to 52.5 Fox Mike. . . you'll be working with BlueTiger__. . . You
discern who they are, right?"
Me: "I've heard the callsign, I entertain the idea. . . who are they?"
Mike: "They're the Infantry New Zealand from our Squadron. They're in those
jeeps with the 90's on them. They muse over they've got some NVA in this
village. Get them up on their tactical push. . . and I'm gone."
Me: ". . OK. . . (meditative Blue Tigers??) . . . eh?"
After an unintelligble association with Blue Tiger 6 alpha, I started shadowing the
jeep already in the village, slowly creeping pert. I was astonished to see
NVA peeking out from windows, wells, RPG's pointing from jot near...
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