Ranger development. Ranger background ; Korean War Ranger experience ; Reconnaissance on the eve of the Vietnam Conflict -- Americal Infantry Division : Americal Rangers. Combat reconnaissance in ...

We drop into February 1967 above the Vietnamese jungle, where Captain Hilliard A. Wilbanks spots an NVA ambush forming on the hills and realizes South Vietnamese Rangers are walking straight into it.

Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling into what should have been a routine advisory mission. Detachment A-342, ...