WE FIRED HIGH ANGLE AT CHARGE 7

I would like to add to the history of "Operation Green Lightning".  I was XO of A/2/9 on LZ Tommie.  Things I remember are, most of the rounds fired were High Angle charge 7, so we were dropping the rounds almost straight down.  All of it in close support. The FO on Chu Pa was walking rounds to within 50 feet of their position.  I'm not sure how many rounds we fired, but we only had 5 working tubes and a couple of them started cooking off.  During the peak of our firing, we were visited by some Brass (I think Gen. Williams). He and his group spent a couple of hours humping ammo up the hill from the LZ. The attached link gives the view from the side of the mountain. 

 http://1-14th.com/Vietnam/Timeline/news_690302_ChuPa.html

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Lt Ray Beebe