Comments on: Operation Attleboro-From Calamity to Crushing Victory http://www.historynet.com/operation-attleboro-from-calamity-to-crushing-victory.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Antonio Sola, CO, Co D, 31st Infantry http://www.historynet.com/operation-attleboro-from-calamity-to-crushing-victory.htm#comment-808492 Antonio Sola, CO, Co D, 31st Infantry Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:33:04 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683690#comment-808492 There is a comment that needs correction. The Brigade Commander was replaced by General Westmoreland shortly after Colonel Lynch was removed from command of my battalion. Westy asked why he was not in the battle area when all his maneuver battalions were commited, and why he had not place someone in command to replace LTC Lynch, and Westy did not like the answer. What a butcher There is a comment that needs correction. The Brigade Commander was replaced by General Westmoreland shortly after Colonel Lynch was removed from command of my battalion.

Westy asked why he was not in the battle area when all his maneuver battalions were commited, and why he had not place someone in command to replace LTC Lynch, and Westy did not like the answer.

What a butcher

]]> By: Joe mahoney http://www.historynet.com/operation-attleboro-from-calamity-to-crushing-victory.htm#comment-739518 Joe mahoney Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:14:07 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683690#comment-739518 This is the same old “WHITE WASH” of the 25 Inf. and Major Meloy. When you get to paragraph 7, you see the 196th sweeping toward the VC base camp. As I said in the other article (HistoryNet. Com Operation Attleboro: The 196th's Light Infantry Brigade Baptism By Fire in the Vietnam War), We (B 2/1) made first contact with the Viet Cong. The author claims that we started at 0900, WRONG. We always started between 0700 and 0730. It was about 0900 when the 2nd Platoon of BRAVO 2/1 led by LT Dale Perkins and 7 other men were killed and 16 others were wounded in an ambush. They pulled us out after we had recovered all of our dead and wounded and taken control of the bunker line. About 1700 B and C companies (2/1) went to reinforce B and C of the Wolfhounds. The author of this article conveniently neglects to mention that Meloy and the Wolfhound’s were the “Blocking Force” and the 2/1 and 4/31 were the “Driving Force”. I cannot comment on who was responsible for this plan, but it was the same plan that Custer used at the Little Big Horn. Position three SMALL blocking forces independent of each other so the “enemy cannot get away”. We all know how well that worked out. I do know it was Col Weddle who complained when MAJOR Meloy started reinforcing his cut off Companies with PARTS of the 2/1, 4/31 and 3/21. As for General de Saussure, he was an Artillery officer put in charge of a Light Infantry Brigade so that the Commanding General of the 25 Infantry could control the Brigade while he promoted his favorites (Meloy and others) to higher rank. Major Guy S Meloy III graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, (Class of 1953). 13 years to make Major? He was the son of Major General Guy S Meloy Jr. Major Meloy also retired as a Major General. In my opinion, this is a distorted depiction of what happened. This is the same old “WHITE WASH” of the 25 Inf. and Major Meloy. When you get to paragraph 7, you see the 196th sweeping toward the VC base camp. As I said in the other article (HistoryNet. Com Operation Attleboro: The 196th's Light Infantry Brigade Baptism By Fire in the Vietnam War), We (B 2/1) made first contact with the Viet Cong. The author claims that we started at 0900, WRONG. We always started between 0700 and 0730. It was about 0900 when the 2nd Platoon of BRAVO 2/1 led by LT Dale Perkins and 7 other men were killed and 16 others were wounded in an ambush. They pulled us out after we had recovered all of our dead and wounded and taken control of the bunker line. About 1700 B and C companies (2/1) went to reinforce B and C of the Wolfhounds. The author of this article conveniently neglects to mention that Meloy and the Wolfhound’s were the “Blocking Force” and the 2/1 and 4/31 were the “Driving Force”. I cannot comment on who was responsible for this plan, but it was the same plan that Custer used at the Little Big Horn. Position three SMALL blocking forces independent of each other so the “enemy cannot get away”. We all know how well that worked out. I do know it was Col Weddle who complained when MAJOR Meloy started reinforcing his cut off Companies with PARTS of the 2/1, 4/31 and 3/21. As for General de Saussure, he was an Artillery officer put in charge of a Light Infantry Brigade so that the Commanding General of the 25 Infantry could control the Brigade while he promoted his favorites (Meloy and others) to higher rank. Major Guy S Meloy III graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, (Class of 1953). 13 years to make Major? He was the son of Major General Guy S Meloy Jr. Major Meloy also retired as a Major General.
In my opinion, this is a distorted depiction of what happened.

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