Binh Dinh

In the early hours of June 18, 1965, Capt. Paris D. Davis led the 12 members of his Special Forces team and about 90 South Vietnamese trainees stealthily through the jungle of Bong Son in Vietnam’s Binh Dinh province.

Yet, as the night turned to day in Binh Dinh province, Davis said the race of his White comrades never came to mind as he ferociously strove to rescue them.

Davis, then a captain and commander with the 5th Special Forces Group, engaged in nearly continuous combat during a pre-dawn raid on a North Vietnamese army camp in the village of Bong Son in Binh Dinh province.

Beach towns Phu Yen, Binh Dinh and Vietnam's main coffee growing province, Dak Lak were hardest hit.

The team was airdropped in a remote farming district of Binh Dinh Province, a thoroughfare for enemy troops heading south, where they were to train a force of local volunteers.