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The Tunnel Rats

Name: Frankie J. Johnson Age: 24 Born: 08/26/1941 Height: 5,3 Weight: 132 Birth Place: MI, Wisconsin

June 15, 1965 It’s a hot day. We have been moving to Hill 28 cause of a possible attack on it. Were about a day away and it seems like were never and plus are orders were if we found and tunnels we had to clear them out. So on those hot days we had to crawl in to thesis small holes that were full of traps and the worst is that their full of them darn coumes.

June 16, 1965 Ah it’s so much bettered to day its nice and cool and I cleared my sixth tunnel yesterday and we found maps and plans on how to capture Hill 28. And we were low on food and supplies and we found a howl bunch of supplies that will last us for a week or two. But the bad news is the tunnel we just cleared took us seven hours, so it’s going to be their tomorrow.

June 17,1965 We are finaly hear but as soon as we got haer thay had a job for us tunnel rats, he said “some of are tunnel rats dident come back form that tunnel and we need you to clear that tunnel cause their yousing it to call in air strikes and bomb baredments”. So we had no chose but to say yes, and the bad thing is most of us dident know what to exspet but the viet cong wouldent give up with out a fight.

June 18,1965 When we got their we set up a camp and planed out where we were going in when and how. Then somme one from the group said that he had a plan so he said some people would go in to the tunnel and the others would make a destration so they wouldent no that we were planting bombs in the tunnel so we all agreed to that plan and we would do it at night so it was nice and dark anofe to hide.

That nigh the men all went out and did what they were sopposed to do and Frankie was the one who was going to lead the men in the tunnel. The plan worked as plan the enemy was destarted the but the bomb charge wasnot working properly cuase the the chage was damed from when it was raining. So the men had drown stras to see who was the one who was going to do it manuly. After they druw straws the youngest one was the one who pulled the sort one and Frankie said that he would do it