![]() ![]() Such was the end of the foremost interpreter of the war, a man whose books about Vietnam became must reading for scholars and soldiers alike.įall’s final trip to the Street Without Joy started 15 years earlier when he was a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. Marine Corps combat photographer, died in the explosion. He never finished the sentence, because at that moment his jeep touched off a Viet Cong mine. We’ve reached one of our phase lines after the fire fight, he said, and it smells bad–meaning it’s a little bit suspicious….Could be an amb– Bernard Fall was with them, revisiting the road that French soldiers had christened ‘ la rue sans joie, a highway already immortalized in his best-known book, Street Without Joy (1961).Īround 4:30, Fall was dictating notes into a tape recorder while he watched the end of a minor skirmish from his jeep. In the late afternoon of February 21, 1967, infantrymen of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, were conducting the third day of Operation Chinook, a sweep down Route 1 in pursuit of Viet Cong Battalion 800. ![]()
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