Labor Day, Monday September 7th, 1970
…exactly 50 years ago.
I and about 25 other Green Berets comprised the Advance Party and one of our tasks was to build this large Mockup of buildings using target canvas as the walls with doors and with cut-outs for windows.
We began constructing it on Monday Sept 7th and it took us several days to complete. We didn’t know why we were having to build it. It wasn’t until we did our first walk-through during our initial training that I realized how it would be used.
We built it on what is known as Range C-2, formerly a strafing range used by the Air Force.
Below is its never-before-revealed, secret location.
We had no idea it was a dimensionally perfect replica of all the buildings and walls of the POW camp in Son Tay, North Vietnam.
The green circle shows the location of Range C-2, where we were building the Mockup exactly 50 years ago today.
Read Sgt Terry Buckler’s full story in Who Will Go.
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