Pacific Stars and Stripes information
for CIDG
For date 700413
CIDG was a Vietnamese Army unit
Primary service involved, US Army
Kontum Province, II Corps, South Vietnam
Location, Dak Seang
Description: The following is an edited version of an article titled "Battle in 11th Day."
(beginning of article cut off...) - Dak Seang Force ... planes flying above the camp during those three days, he said. Sgt. Daniel Noonan, 22, a medic in the camp, said people left the camp's bunkers only on medevac, forward observation and resupply missions during the heavy fighting. The Mike Forces, he said, "sat out there for days drawing fire away from us, giving us a little rest." Even as he left the camp, Noonan again faced enemy fire. "I was on the outside waiting for the chopper," Noonan said, "when a mortar hit on our east perimeter. Then we took one on our west perimeter. The chopper dropped in, I dove on board, and a mortar round hit right under our tail." The chopper returned here safely with no casualties. Noonan was helping rocket shrapnel victims on a medevac helicopter the first day when the enemy opened up the massive attacks. "That chopper pilot (WO1 Danny Floyd) had guts. He was taking hits all over - mortars, AK-47 rounds, everything," Noonan said. "But he waited there until we got everyone in. If I see that guy again, I'll buy him a beer." Noonan said that the situation in and around camp "looked good now." "I have a feeling that the enemy has exhausted all the potential of his first wave and is preparing a new attack with replacements from across the border," Lan said. He said he expected the second wave to come within a week. Land said the siege of Dak Seang was a typical seasonal move against an isolated Green Beret camp. But he added that this year the siege came sooner than usual. "Often the enemy seems to want only to get a headline," Lan said. "In this one I think he really wanted to overrun Dak Seang," Lan said 104 Vietnamese and Mike force troops lost their lives in the battle, 35 of then within the camp's perimeter, while another 430 were wounded. Lan put enemy casualties at 896 killed in ground actions and 472 killed by air strikes. The U.S. Command said that one American and one Australian advisor were killed in action and 11 Air Force personnel were killed on re-supply runs into the camp.
Comments: SGT Noonan, Daniel; SF Medic; ;
WO1 Floyd, Danny; pilot; ;
The source for this information was 7004pss.avn supplied by Les Hines 02/02/2000
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