Chapter Five“HUE – LCpl. Steve Berntson, Echo Co., 2nd Bn., 5th Marines, single-handedly destroyed an enemy machine gun position during the initial assault across the Phu Cam Canal on Feb. 2.
While walking point, Berntson led his Company across the canal when automatic weapons fire began strafing...”
Inside the ISO office, Roark and Grimm pounded out stories about the first week’s battles in Hue. Mostly small potatoes, the stories were bare-boned action pieces for the Marine Corps rag, the Sea Tiger. Sometimes, the stories were picked up by Stars & Stripes or a small stateside newspaper wanting to publicize a hometown hero, but that was about as far as the stories got. The civilian reporters working in Danang and Saigon wrote the fat stuff—the big picture—peppered with the predictable sl
