History of The Third Battalion Fourth Marines

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LT. Christy Gets Navy Cross L/3/4

Corpsmen Wilson and Smith Receive Bronze Stars 26 yrs latter See Corpsmen

Newswkeek Article Operations Prarie, This article was written by Senior Editor Arnaud de Borchgrave. Mr de Borchgrave was a invited guest and speaker at our Battalion reunion in Washington D.C, 1991. This is his first hand account of a typical hill fight of which the Battalion was involved in. This occured during latter part of 1966 timeframe just south of the DMZ near the rockpile.

The following was extracted From:
 Marine Corps Historical Reference A Brief History of the 4th Marines 
 Historical Division Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps  1970 
 "By James S. Santelli"