MACHINES OF WAR

How could we have lost


the war with machines


That ruled the land


and sky

The vietcong, vietminh

and the NVA

Had nothing but

a reason for to die

We had 3 tanks on patrol

they had hootched up with

us the night before

The next morning they started

their engines

there was a mighty roar

They traversed their


turrets knocking trees down


making a terrible din


With so much noise and


lack of discipline


we just had to win

We escorted the tanks

onto the hard baked padi

fields and started looking

for a large enemy cache

The exact location we

didn't know only that

it was by the padi field

next to a well worn track

We walked all morning

till mid afternoon

sitting ducks we had been

all the way

We met the Aussies and

they took over and

walked just a 100 yards

that day

The enemy had seen

us coming and had

prepared his ambush well

When the ambush broke

two tanks went down six

soldiers dead

They had walked straight

into hell