![]() At that point Jim told Carlos to take her down. The group started running towards Hathcock and Land. When she squatted down to urinate, Land called in an artillery barrage on the group of snipers. Carlos did not want to shoot the wrong one so he waited. All of them were armed, and Hathcock noticed that the woman was carrying a rifle with a scope. She was a small woman walking towards a ridgeline with her squad of five Viet Cong guerrillas. Late one afternoon Land spotted the group with a Vietnamese woman that fit Apache’s description, 700 yards away. ![]() It took several days for Carlos and Jim to locate the Viet Cong sniper team. Land said, “Carlos ran towards the Marine who collapsed dead, a few feet in front of him.” He had been castrated, and his arms were hanging limp, the bones were broken and exposed. ![]() He was bleeding profusely, much of his skin had been cut away and his fingernails had been removed. Hathcock and Land heard horrendous screams and the next morning a Marine private staggered toward camp. Within hearing range of the hilltop camp defenders, she tortured him through the night. One day she had captured a young Marine during an ambush. Because of her brutal tactics and infamy, she quickly became a high profile target She was notoriously well-known to the Marines around Hill 55. Carlos Hathcock, II and his spotter, Captain Edward “Jim” Land were sent from DaNang to hunt for Apache. She used a 7.62mm Model 44 Russian-made Mosin-Nagant rifle, with a scope. ![]() She operated around Hill 55, in the vicinity of Duc Pho, 8 miles (13 km) from DaNang. She was of Vietnamese and French ancestry and grew up in Hanoi. She was known for cutting off the eyelids and saving them as souvenirs. The female Viet Cong sniper and interrogator, known as “Apache,” enjoyed torturing 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division US Marines and South Vietnamese troops and letting them bleed to death. ![]()
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