On the night of June 15-16, 1966, eighteen US Marines found themselves surrounded atop Hill 488 in South Vietnam by approximately 200-250 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard's reconnaissance team fought through twelve hours of desperate combat, eventually running so low on ammunition they threw rocks at attackers hoping to trick them into thinking they were grenades. Despite being wounded—all eighteen men—and fighting hand-to-hand in darkness, the Marines hel
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On the night of June 15-16, 1966, eighteen US Marines found themselves surrounded atop Hill 488 in South Vietnam by approximately 200-250 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard's reconnaissance team fought through twelve hours of desperate combat, eventually running so low on ammunition they threw rocks at attackers hoping to trick them into thinking they were grenades. Despite being wounded—all eighteen men—and fighting hand-to-hand in darkness, the Marines hel
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