wheng your buddy get it you see some he can't get to them and you know what they are going through and you cannot do a thing to help them. >> this is the enemy. in the past few weeks i spoke to dozens through interpreters. they all said they had been mobilized and drafted. they are tiny men. boys. some spent months marching down carrying weapons to the south bigger than themselves. in battle they showed almost maniacal courage. by week's and, the campaign had ended. the third to great -- third brigade was committed but found little. according to the commander -- >> it appears at the little bastardize have had enough and bugged out. bastards havettle had enough and bugged out. >> in the past four years, the south vietnamese have lost 27,000 men in battle. last weekend alone, almost 1000. american casualties have been relatively light. on things giving morning, americans picked up the headlines to find announcing that our casualties in vietnam were the highest ever. stock figures were 240 dead, 470 wounded. brought the severity into every home. the toll was three times higher than any pr

they had no idea what was wheng, what hit them, and it did hit them, they had no idea. it gives you that same experience as best it can. [indiscernible] [video clip] seth: when you exit this the creation of the uss tang, the video features three of the survivors, the voice of floyd, the chief, and clayton decker. those three members were the only three we were able to locate that would give the history. we interviewed them in 2011 and what is important to know about the tang and the crew, when those guys were washed overboard and they escaped, they floated in the water for several hours and they were picked up by a japanese destroyer. the japanese destroyer that picked them up was escorting the convoy that the tang just destroyed the night before, so when the guys were picked up by the japanese crew, needless to say, they were not treated nicely by the japanese crew. they were sent to several prison camps along the way, finally ending up in the most infamous japanese prison camp, which is right outside of tokyo. it was the camp reserved for special prisoners and they we