The nva found firing lanes where they could launch shoulder held b-40 Anti-personnel rockets that slammed above and around them as they raced down the hill For their lives. Laterno realized his car 15 had somehow been caught and a rope above him Just far enough away that he couldn't reach it. He pulled out his m-79 and launched a 40 millimeter grenade toward the nva positions now all he could see of the enemy were hundreds of muzzle blasts from a k-47s and green tracers Green trace rounds eerily climbing toward the quartet of st virginia men. The only thing between him and certain death was the single piece of jungle floor 200 feet down