Men of Valor Fight for 7 New Screens

After enduring five months of increasingly aggressive Viet Cong activity in the area of the American air bases at Da Nang and Chu Lai, the Marines were on the lookout for a decisive, set piece battle that would crush the guerrillas. When intelligence gathered from Viet Cong deserters revealed that Communist forces were massing for an early autumn attack on Chu Lai, the stage was set for the first major combat operation of the Vietnam War.