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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-14-2009, 10:33 AM
Tanksmasher
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Tiger Force was a recon platoon of 45 men in the 1st Battalion/327th Infantry of the 101st Airborne's 1st Brigade. . Created by Major David Hackworth in November 1965, the Tigers were primarily a search and destroy unit.
The Tigers really didn't lose control until a seven-month period between May and November of 1967. The process of killing and torturing civilians was gradual. The men slowly began to lose control as a result of being in the bush so long, losing friends to booby traps, losing responsible leadership, and having little supervision.
Interestingly, less than a dozen Tigers were killed during the time in question.
The higher-ups heard rumors of Tigers collecting ears but didn't want to know if they were true. However, they had to have known that the Tigers were killing civilians because they reported hundreds of KIAs without a single weapon found. This is what should have tipped off the battalion commander, Gerald Morse, known as Ghost Rider, but he continued to order the Tigers to keep killing. In fact, he said he wanted 327 kills for the 327th Infantry. Officers got promoted for the number of kills their men had. Ghost Rider obviously knew and refused to talk much with CID and reporters, even decades later.
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