In 1969, 10 North Vietnamese Tanks Attacked 4 American M48s at Ben Het. It Was a Fatal Mistake.

On the night of March 3, 1969, a company of North Vietnamese PT-76 light tanks drove up Highway 512 to destroy the long-range guns at the Ben Het Special Forces camp. Four M48A3 Pattons of Company B, 1st Battalion, 69th Armor had been dug in on West Hill for about a week. This is the fight as the men who wrote it down recorded it, including what the record does and does not say about the number of tanks. Narrated with a synthetic voice. Archival footage and photographs are used for illustration. Sources: Capt. Gerald R. Cossey, "Tank vs Tank," Armor magazine, September-October 1970. Gen. Donn A. Starry, Mounted Combat in Vietnam (Vietnam Studies, Department of the Army, 1978), pp. 150-153, 215. Silver Star citation, SP5 Lynn D. Anderson, Headquarters 4th Infantry Division, General Orders No. 1732, May 16, 1969. The Virtual Wall, SP4 Jeffrey Kenneth Goss. Capt. Bob Baird, "Defending Ben Het," veterans' account. Simon Dunstan, Vietnam Tracks: Armor in Battle (Osprey, 1982).