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of running everyone off the firebase. I remember as the helicopters braved the flames to pick up the 105mm howitzers, the slings were burning below the choppers as they departed. As one helicopter approached the horizon, the sling gave way and dropped the gun from its belly. Even though we knew it was serious, we laughed our socks off.”

Colonel Donn A. Starry commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Cambodia. (Courtesy Donn A. Starry)

Specialist 4th Class Hal Spurgeon of A/2-47 Mech with an AK47 captured during a night ambush after the Cambodian Incursion. (Courtesy Harold Spurgeon)

Troop E, 2d Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment crosses the marsh separating Vietnam from Cambodia on 1 May 1970, the first day of the Cambodian Incursion. (Courtesy Grail L. Brookshire)

Captains “Jack” Speedy (left) and Sewall Menzel (shown during a previous tour with the 101st Airborne) of the 11th ACR. (Courtesy John C. Speedy III and Sewall H. Menzel)

M48 tanks from the 2d Battalion, 34th Armor, 25th Division, in contact at the beginning of the Cambodian Incursion. (U.S. Army photo by Dean Sharp/Courtesy J. D. Coleman)

Second Lieutenant John Bayer of D/6-31 Infantry, 9th Division, which saw heavy combat in the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia. (Courtesy John Bayer)

First Lieutenant Pat Forster of A/2-34 Armor in Cambodia. (Courtesy Pat Forster)

ACAVs from 2-11 ACR recon-by-fire at the line of departure on 1 May 1970. (Courtesy Donn A. Starry)

Platoon leader and radioman stand on a bamboo trail in The City, a major enemy supply area captured by C/1-5 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division, on 4 May 1970. (U.S. Army photo by Dean Sharp/Courtesy J. D. Coleman)

Colonel Starry smokes a cigar on the back of an ACAV from 2-11 ACR on the way to the line of departure on 1 May 1970. (Courtesy Donn A. Starry)

One of the numerous supply bunkers in The City (U.S. Army photo by Dean Sharp/Courtesy J. D. Coleman)

Captain Kevin Corcoran, commander of C/1-5 Cav, sits amid enemy mortars and recoilless rifles in The City. (U.S. Army photo by Dean Sharp/ Courtesy J. D. Coleman)

Lieutenant Colonel Grail L. Brookshire, commander of the 2d Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, on 4 May 1970 during the race to Snoul, Cambodia. Note the NVA belt buckle. (Courtesy Grail L. Brookshire)

First Lieutenant Ivo Peske (bare-headed), a platoon leader in A/2-47 Mechanized Infantry, 9th Division, was wounded near Memot, Cambodia, on 29 May 1970. (Courtesy Ivo Peske)

Troopers from 2-11 ACR open fire from an M551 Sheridan. (Courtesy Grail L. Brookshire)

Sergeant Major Donald E. Horn at the end of his first tour with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. (Courtesy Donald E. Horn)

ACAVs and Sheridans of E/2-11 ACR take a quick break on the road to Snoul, 5 May 1970. (Courtesy Sewall H. Menzel)

Lieutenant Bayer and Capt. Karl H. Lowe (left), commander of Delta Company, 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry. (Courtesy John Bayer)

First Lieutenant Joseph V. Yarashas (center) and Bucky May (left) of A/2-22 Mechanized Infantry, 25th Division. (Courtesy Joseph V. Yarashas)

Dennis Hiedeman (left, with grenade launcher), Jim Ross (right, with machine gun), and John Keinroth (sitting atop Ml 13 Armored Personnel Carrier) of A/2-22 Mech. (Courtesy Jim Ross)

North Vietnamese prisoner in Cambodia, May 1970. (Courtesy Jim Ross)

Specialist 4th Class Jim Ross of A/2-22 Mech points to a North Vietnamese soldier killed during a B52 Arc Lite, Cambodia, 11 May 1970. (Courtesy Jim Ross)

Captain Miles Sisson, commander of H/2-11 ACR, lost a leg in Cambodia on 14 May 1970. He is shown at Fort Defiance in War Zone C, Vietnam. (Courtesy Miles Sisson)

First Lieutenant Frank R. Cambria (right, wearing sunglasses) of G/2-11 ACR. Note the tied-down antenna, and splash marks from an RPG. (Courtesy Frank R. Cambria)

G/2-11 tracks clearing out a night defensive position in a hardwood forest along the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Note the height of the trees. (Courtesy Frank R. Cambria)

Demoralized