Word: 101st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st Airborne's Operation Seward has robbed enemy granaries of 2,500 tons of rice-enough to feed 32,500 men for a year-as well as accounting for nearly 200 enemy dead...
...second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
...Airdrop at Arnhem" recounts the massive Allied paratroop attack behind Nazi lines in Holland on Sept. 17, 1944, and reviews the tragic failure of this bold plan to hasten the end of World War II. Walter Cronkite revisits the area where, as a war correspondent, he parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division, and also interviews the intelligence chief of the Dutch underground. Repeat...
...ground, North Vietnamese regulars who had been rampaging through Phu Yen province felt another kind of pressure. Flushed with victory over a lightly armed South Vietnamese company of C.l.D.G. (Civilian Irregular Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch...
Lieut. Thung, however, decided to play the hero and attack on his own. Trouble was, the U.S. command had dispatched a battalion of 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) by Caribou transport and then helicopter from Kontum to join up with the 101st in Tuy Hoa. All night, Thung's mortars blasted away at the U.S. position on a small plateau, but with little effect...