Lo Giang
One day outside Da Nang in February 1968, told by the soldiers of A, B and C Company, the Marines who were there, and the families of the men who never came home.
On February 8, 1968, in the middle of the Tet Offensive, the soldiers of A Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry, were supposed to start three days off. Within hours they were the reaction force. They marched most of the night to a blocking position outside Da Nang, and by morning they were crossing flooded rice paddies toward a village called Lo Giang.
The enemy was dug in on their flank and in front of the village. What followed was close enough that, as one man put it, you were looking in the other man's face.
Lo Giang was not one company's fight. B and C Company fought there too, and so did Marines trapped in the village. This film follows all of them, and the families who have lived with that day ever since.
We fought for 14 straight hours.A Company veteran
The men who fought at Lo Giang are in their late seventies and older. Some have never told this story on camera. Every year there are fewer of them to ask, and the ones still with us live all over the country.
This film tells it in their words. Nothing is invented and nothing is dramatized. When we show a map, it is the real operations map. When we show a face, it is one of the men.
- Five interviews filmed so far, in Oklahoma, Kentucky and a third state, with men of A Company and a historian of the battle
- A finished trailer, and archival photos and maps from the men's own collections
- Our first $10,000 is spent, and that does not count the hours in the edit
- Families of the survivors, and of the men who were killed, have now agreed to be interviewed
We still need the men of C Company, and the families. The families carry the half of this story the men can't tell, and reaching them means more trips to more states.
We're not going to make it. And he said, tell my wife I love her.A Company veteran
We are raising $10,000 to finish the film before the end of 2027. It pays for travel to the veterans and families we still need to interview, the filming days, and the time to edit, color and mix it properly.
Every backer gets to watch it before it is released.
Donny Kaiser, executive producer. His father served with A Company.
Ernesto Perez, producer, director of photography and editor, ConnectArt Media in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
If you served at Lo Giang, or your family did, we would like to hear from you. Get in touch.