In the early morning hours of June 27, 1967, a rocket and mortar attack struck the Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwest South Vietnam.

Four Marines were killed in the attack and another eighty-three were wounded.

At 8:30 that morning, a Marine patrol set off for a hill four kilometers to the west of the base where an observation aircraft had spotted enemy rocket and mortar launch sites.

When the Marine patrol reached the top of the hill, a large enemy force attacked them, killing and wounding several men.

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