It was one of the largest single-day battles of the Viet Nam war, when over 2500 Viet Cong soldiers attacked an isolated fire support base manned by just 450 Americans. The base had been established just two days earlier in a clearing deep in the jungle of War Zone C, with all the troops and artillery air-lifted in by helicopter. Early on the morning of March 21, 1967, the Viet Cong attacked in a series of human wave assaults that overran the outer perimeter and threatened to capture the entire base as the defenders ran low on ammunition. A relief task force of mechanized infantry and tanks was struggling through dense jungle to come to their aid, but they were slowed by enemy mortars and snipers as well as the terrain. Air strikes and artillery failed to stop the enemy onslaught, and the landing zone was too hot for helicopters to resupply the beleaguered Americans. BODY COUNT describes the battle and the events that led up to it from the point of view of three fictional characters who experienced it first-hand. While the characters are fictional, the major events of the battle are factual. Relive this historic battle and feel the physical and psychological toll it took on the men who fought it.