At about 03:15, the VC mortar fire temporarily slackened as being the sappers started to withdraw in the village. The Marines took benefit of the lull to send a squad into Phu Thanh to locate and support CUPP 9. To get to the CUPP, the squad had to work its way by way of a A part of the village by now devastated through the sappers.At the 1st Plato