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and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sunday afternoon that turned into a life and daeth struggle. >> i'm doing an oral history video interview with mr. bill bec...

and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sunday afternoon that turned into a life and daeth struggle. >> i'm doing an oral history video intervi...

either didn't remember the password or didn't say the password quick enough, and on the way back into the perimeter he was shot. this is -- and i don't know if you'd talked to freddie owens yet or not. but this is one of freddie's buddies that died in freddie's arms because, again -- and i won't say it was carelessness, but it was a lapse. a mental lapse. so we talked an awful lot about that. now, again, the rest of the guys went back, 2nd of the 7th, 1st of the 7th went back to thanksgiving dinner and whatever. and we got back and my battalion commander said, we have another operati...

and shares his thoughts on what should be done to avoid a similar fate. sunday at 3:30. book tv. every weekend on c-span 2. now more oral histories from the vietnam archive at texas tech university in lubbock. these stories focus on the november 1965 battle of the idrang valley. bill beck was an assistant machine gunner whose actions at a clearing called landing zone x-ray earned him a silver star. in this hour-long interview he recalls a routine mission on a sunday afternoon that turned into a life and daeth struggle. >> i'm doing an oral history video interview with mr. b...