![]() Poole notes that after saving the soldier, Sabo attacked. “I think Les got hit with the shrapnel on the back and the wounded soldier crawled to the tree-line.” ![]() “What I recall was that Les ran out in the direction of the wounded soldier just as a grenade was thrown in that area and he dove on the guy on the ground when the grenade exploded,” according to Koziol. ‘If it hadn’t been for him holding his side of the perimeter almost single-handedly so I could reinforce his position, we would have been overrun,’ Stocks said.” (Stocks described Sabo’s actions in an emotional interview.) “While Sabo would perform more spectacular acts of valor that afternoon, none would be more vital to the Currahees’ defense of their position. “As Sabo headed for the jungle’s relative safety, he led a counterattack against an enemy element that was attempting to close the pocket and completely surround the Americans,” writes Poole. The soldiers of Bravo Company became surrounded and moved for cover. It became known as the Mother’s Day Ambush. As many as 400 to 500 North Vietnamese troops in defensive positions, with tree covering and able to “fire down,” attacked the American soldiers. After 3 pm, when the 2 nd Platoon and Bravo Company’s 3 rd Platoon moved from the jungle into a clearing, “the shit hit the fan,” according to Koziol. Sabo and his friend George Koziol were part of the 2 nd Platoon. ![]() The mission on May 10, 1970, was to attack North Vietnamese locations and destroy supplies. But those were a preliminary to the events of Mother’s Day. B-52s bombed parts of Cambodia for a month but with little effect on “North Vietnamese troops and facilities concealed beneath jungle canopies.”īravo Company landed in Cambodia on May 5, 1970, and engaged in firefights the first three days. ![]() The North Vietnamese regularly attacked American and South Vietnamese troops and retreated into the safety of Laos and Cambodia. In 1970, President Richard Nixon approved a strategic decision to expand the Vietnam War into Cambodia to go after North Vietnamese troops. ![]()
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