![]() ![]() 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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