"Everything is empty"
"Everything is empty" On May 10, 1969, the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States launched an assault on Hill 937 (locally called Dong Ap Bia), occupied by the enemy, the 29th Regiment of the People's Army of North Vietnam. The slopes of the mountain are very long and steep, the equipment cannot be adjusted and protects them - almost 800 "hooks". Thus began one of the bloodiest and most senseless battles of the Vietnam War. The division's forces, numbering about two thousand people, launched endless attacks for ten days along a narrow mountain path through dense forest, receiving bullets in the back from the Viet Cong hiding in secrets. Hill 937 earned the name "Hamburger" among the soldiers, as "the mountain chewed people up like hamburger meat". In ten days, the Americans launched fifteen airstrikes on the positions of the Hookes. A thousand tons of bombs, more than 140 tons of napalm. They fired about 20 thousa...