“Join us.” Nang clutched at every youth that approached. “Join the Movement. Join Angkar Leou. We are the soul of Kampuchea.”
Ten blocks east the band repeated their ambush, then six blocks north, then in the southwest quadrant. Then the ARVN shelling began and Nang ordered his platoon, now thirty-seven strong, to retreat to the forest.
Kompong Thom fell to the NVA on 7 June. On the eighth, FANK forces with uncoordinated “fifth column” assistance ousted the Viets.
Along the border, Communist forces regrouped and counterattacked U.S. forces near Mimot; in South Viet Nam, VC terrorists punished the Allies by murdering 114 civilians at Thanh My, 17 miles southeast of Da Nang.
A battle pitting four thousand ARVN and two thousand FANK soldiers against fourteen hundred NVA and Khmer Viet Min
