The only checks to their accounts are brief references to the official SOG history of the U.S. Army. There is not a single Vietnamese account in the book, including of the S. Vietnamese soldiers who ...

to U.S. Army General Creighton Abrams requesting that SOG mount an operation east of Chavane as a “diversion” to draw NVA forces away from a larger U.S. attack on the Trail. The CIA was ...