Jack Smith’s First Person Account Of LZ Albany
After the battle of LZ X-Ray which was depicted in Hal Moore & Joe Galloway’s book, “We were Soldiers,” the survivors moved toward LZ Albany for withdraw and were ambushed. Jack Smith, the famous ABC reporter, was a Private First Class (PFC) in C Company 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry and wrote his first person account of the massacre at LZ Albany. It was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1967 and is a chilling account of the events. WARNING: THIS STORY IS QUITE GRAPHIC. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
-Alemaster
