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- From: Patrick Eves <patrick.eves@CANREM.COM>
- Subject: no cannister-was re:t
- Message-ID: <Bzs8v7.LJE@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:55 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Patrick Eves <patrick.eves@CANREM.COM>
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- JH>I have the impression that there was a Beehive round that was used for
- JH>those occasions when the VC were attacking a position with 105s. They
- JH>seemed to be anti-personnel. One instance I remember reading about was
- JH>the night the first Medal of Honor was won by a Special Forces guy name of
- JH>Donlon (?). In the story I read about it, they mentioned delevating (?)
- JH>the 105s and firing Beehives into the massed VC in the wire. It sounded
- JH>like a _big_ shotgun shell loaded with fletchettes.
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- I think the book you mean was "And Brave Men, Too". The author was Timothy
- Donlon, I think. In the incident to which you refer, the MOH recipient was
- just yer common grunt, I believe. I may be wrong - I lost my copy of the book
- during a move. Stupid of me, it was a hell of a good read.
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