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They left a lot
behind, weapons
and tanks.
Everybody thought
they were poorly
equipped. They
weren't If they had
been given a chance
to use their weapons
it would have been
a different battle. '
— Rich Dodson
Marine corporal
he said.
The 22-year-old Rappahannock High grad said that driving through the burning oil fields was surrealistic. At 10 in the morning the sky was as dark as it normally is at dusk, he said.
They took 13 enemy prisoners of war the first day, which slowed down their convoy. In a stroke of blind luck, the “hasty position” they occupied that first night was right between two brigades of mechanized armor to the north and 1,000 ground troops to the south, both ready to ambush. They were in the only safe spot anywhere around them.
“By the time we moved into posi
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