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 John Leppelman on the oats/,. So John is on the boats and he is on these boats during Tet Offensive. S o they had to resupply some people in a city that had been the main object of the enemy and almost every time they made a supply drop they were under tons of fire from one side of the river and sometimes both sides of the river even where they had to land there might be attackers the marines there held out for an extremely long time with John Lepplman and his crew giving them supplies.