Word: 101st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid the heavy casualties of an uphill infantry assault, U.S. commanders devised a wily plan. While the men of the 101st Airborne and 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) stood back, poised to pounce, 900 tear gas grenades blossomed on the ridge to flush the Reds out of their tunnels and bunkers. As the enemy came up for air, the overcast and seemingly empty sky began raining bombs. For 47 minutes they fell in lethal, patterned precision, laying open the ridge in a giant surgical slash. The bombs came from 24 high-flying B-52s guided in from Guam by "sky spot" radar...
...101st Harvard-Yale Regatta will take place this Saturday on the Thames River at New London. Started in 1852, the Regatta is the oldest intercollegiate event in the United States...
...Idiot." United Press International's Steve Van Meter, 20, agrees. After his tour as a 101st Airborne infantryman, he stayed on to take pictures. "A photographer has to be where the action is," he says. But for all the danger in the field, Van Meter found his scariest moments two weeks ago in the Tinh Hoi pagoda incident at Danang (TIME, June 3). "When you're out in the field, you always know there's your side and the other side. In Danang, I didn't have either side. The street stuff is ten times more...
...least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...
Elsewhere, the Air Cavalry closed out three-week Operation Lincoln along the Cambodian border. The Flying Horsemen's tally: 480 enemy killed, ten captured, 98 weapons seized. Cross-country, near Tuy Hoa along the South China Sea, the 101st Airborne routed a Viet Cong company, killing 15 in a fierce fire fight. Guam-based B-52 bombers, newly modified to haul 60,000 Ibs. of bombs each, jackhammered a Viet Cong radio and communications center 35 miles northeast of Saigon. The big jets came in single file, each unloading its 750-lb. bombs on the same, deeply bunkered site...