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Show Springville man tangles with VC A Springville man, Pfc. Richard Rich-ard Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hill, had a rather frightening experience in Vietnam Viet-nam recently, according to an account in a newspaper. The story read as follows: "A pointman for a Viet Cong squad failed to spot an ambush am-bush patrol from the Division's 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, in a fatal mistake that cost him his life and probably the life of one of his squad members 35 miles north of Saigon recently. "Sgt. Alfred Brown of Stanton, Stan-ton, Va., first noticed a Viet Cong approaching his position northeast of the village of Trum Thap, where an element of the Ranger Reconnaissance Platoon had set up the ambush patrol. "He was coming from the village and passed within five feet of my position said Brown as he added that he (the Viet Cong) had never noticed him (Brown). After the Viet Cong passed, Brown spotted seven others moving down the trail, Pfc. Bethel Brown of New Jersey, hurled a grenade on command while the other stook the squad under fire. The point-man fell. As Pfc. Richard Hill, Springville, Spring-ville, Utah, explained, "I saw the remainder of the squad break for the brush carrying the one Viet Cong with them." "One American claym ore mine was dropped by the fleeing flee-ing squad along with an AK50 assault weapon with three magazines and a U. S. pistol belt." |