Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

Chapter 17 now this book will be back on the forum shelf soon. PATIENCE

Originally Posted by Dundee

Chapter 17 now this book will be back on the forum shelf soon. PATIENCE

Steady on man you will wear yourself out and go to sleep on the tractor or something. Take it easy.

Yanks, sometimes we wondered whether they were on our side or not...There flyboys were bloody good though.

For days the Company set up ambushes, but they produced nothing until the night the Americans landed a man on the moon. Willie's platoon had been left to hold the monastery while the other platoons went out on ambush. They heard the fire fight begin in the early hours of the morning, but had to wait until the men got back in late the follow afternoon to find out what happened. One of the m60 gunners described the whole thing.

"I had just come off sentry about 0200 when I decided to stay up for a few minutes and listen to the moon landing. Me and my mate had a set of earphones, and I was plugged in when there was this bloody great bang as the claymores went off. I quite clearly heard Armstrong say "one giant step for mankind" when this Viet Cong came past taking the biggest steps I've ever seen".

I tell you Willie it was the weirdest thing, and it got worse" the gunner related with a tired grin.
"There were six of them, four of them were down and two got away, though one of the downed ones was a squealer. He'd fallen in a hollow and just when we started to settle down he'd let out a blood curdling screech or start moving around and everyone would open fire again. By daylight we were pretty sick of him so we hurried him off to his ancestors and set out on the tracks of the other two. We came around the corner on our tippytoes and there is this other bugger sitting on a rock with his rifle magazine in his hand and a silly look on his face".

"Now he is up there with Saint Peter trying to explain where he went wrong" The gunner sat to finish a cigarette that someone had given him before he moved off to his own position.

" Do you think we will ever understand these orientals" he asked plaintively as he eyed his cigarette but before flicking it into Willie's gunpit"
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, and eighteen hours ago you didnt even smoke" was Willies only reply.

The Monastry
Dat Do
July 1969

Originally Posted by Scribe

Steady on man you will wear yourself out and go to sleep on the tractor or something. Take it easy.

Yanks, sometimes we wondered whether they were on our side or not...There flyboys were bloody good though.

I've seen Dundee's tractor, no danger if you fell asleep on it. It's got no wheels lmao