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Firebase Ripcord - The Vietnam hilltop trap with no way out but helicopter

In the summer of 1970, US forces reoccupied Firebase Ripcord in the A Shau Valley to support operations against North ...
Publishers Weekly

A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley

The heart of Adkins’s Vietnam War memoir is a blow-by-blow account of a vicious, four-day battle in 1966 in the densely forested and notoriously dangerous A Shau Valley. During his second tour, Adkins ...
Military.com

Medal of Honor Recipient Was Saved by a Tiger and a Sawed-Off Shotgun

The Indochinese tiger was well known in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam's "heart of darkness" that ran west from the city of Hue and linked up with the Ho Chi Minh Trail. (Photo by A. Savin via Wikimedia ...
Time

The War: Shrinking Sanctuary

Few places remain in South Viet Nam where Communist forces enjoy anything like a sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by ...
Time

The War: Fighting Pitch

Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet ...