Astonishing Vietnam War Photos Reveal The Moment U.S. Troops Unleashed Hell On Viet Cong Sniper In Hills Above An Army Camp
” A Vietnam War veteran has released incredible night-time photographs he took of American troops opening fire on a Viet Cong sniper who had been firing on a U.S. Army camp.
For more than four decades, photographer James Speed Hensinger kept these incredible photographs to himself, not releasing them to the public until now.
Hensinger was just a 22-year-old paratrooper with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in April 1970 when a Viet Cong sniper began spraying automatic rifle fire on Hensinger’s base in Phu Tai, near the coastal city of Da Nang.
Hensinger’s spectacular photos capture the streaming automatic weapons fire and corresponding explosions where the sniper was hiding out.
The M42 was equipped with a pair of 40mm Bofors auto-cannons, and a .50-caliber machine gun. Both weapons can be seen firing white tracers into the hills. “
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