A Bad Day in the Arizona Territory

November 23, 2022 00:32:32
A Bad Day in the Arizona Territory
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A Bad Day in the Arizona Territory

Nov 23 2022 | 00:32:32

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Show Notes

In 1962, while on a year-long break from college, Barry Broman was first shot at in South Vietnam while working as a photographer for the Associated Press. Seven years later, he arrived in I Corps, the northernmost part of South Vietnam, as a Marine infantry officer in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (H/2/5), which was operating in an area known as the Arizona Territory. Not far from the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the Arizona Territory was a vast expanse of villages patently hostile to the Marines of H/2/5 and the South Vietnamese government. 

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