c.b.s. news bureau in one nine hundred sixty five. first appeared that the marines had been snipe gas and that a few houses were made to pay. an officer told me he had orders to go in and level the string of hamlets that surrounds needs village and all around the common paddy field that cedes these hamlets. five hundred fifty homes were leveled in retaliation for a burst of gunfire. on the first operation that i was on in country. went into a village called five fingers and it was that typical koran in search which is you surround a village and then you sweep through it and hopefully when you're sweeping up anybody running from you they're going to run into the of course the surrounding troops on the other side and they get wiped out but we received fire as we walked into the village and we took no casualties but we did end up with a body count no weapons were found so apparently they were civilians the next day in the morning should i say they rounded up the entire village. all of them. and marched them out you were all prisoners of