Fallen Angels, Chapter 14

After hearing reports that the Viet Cong are harassing the same village Alpha Company visited on their first pacification mission, the soldiers undertake a mission to secure the village until the threat is gone. Although the intelligence report indicates that the village will not be hit until the next day, the American helicopters encounter artillery fire upon arrival and the soldiers discover that the village has already been razed. The Viet Cong fighters have come and gone, and Alpha Company finds only dead or wounded villagers cowering in bullet-ridden or flaming huts.