Waiting for Chopper…One Dead, One Wounded: The Viet Cong ambush on Basset’s Green Beret patrol left one Montagnard soldier close to death from a head injury (at left) and an American medic with severe leg wounds (on stretcher). “I dived behind a rock and managed to escape serious injury,” Basset recalls, “although one of my sketchbooks bears a bullet hole from the attack.” (Courtesy Gene Basset)