Return to Dak to

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Return to Dak To, a battle that should not have happened, is both a moving and misleading documentary. An engineering company is left to their own defense in a remote northern firebase in 1969. A North Vietnamese army assault was imminent, yet the US had no withdrawal plan. They went through two months of shelling and sniper attacks, with 40% of them becoming casualties. This is the story of four engineers who survived it and came back to Vietnam to finally put the war to rest. They travelled through Vietnam, meeting former enemies, seeing the changes in Vietnam and reached a form of emotional conclusion at the actual battle site. The travel is interspersed with archival footage of the Dak To firebase as it was back then, other GI photographs and interviews with the director’s military comrades.