At about 03:15, the VC mortar fire temporarily slackened as being the sappers began to withdraw from the village. The Marines took advantage of the lull to send a squad into Phu Thanh to uncover and help CUPP nine. To get to the CUPP, the squad had to work its way by way of a A part of the village by now devastated with the sappers.At the 1st Plato