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On the evening of June 18, 1968, First Lieutenant Larry L. Taylor, 26 years old, piloted an AH-1G Cobra gunship with Troop D (Air), 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, close to the village of Ap Go Cong in Bình Dương Province, South Vietnam. At around 2100 hours, a four-member long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) requested urgent extraction. The team had been deployed earlier to observe enemy movements. They found themselves encircled by a Viet Cong unit of uncertain ma