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Product of a three-month Viet Nam tour in the summer of 1966, this book follows elements of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) and the 101st Airborne Division through the string of Central Highlands skirmishes, ambushes, successes and failures that were known as Operations Crazy Horse, Austin 6, and Hawthorne II. Marshall, at 66 a retired brigadier who once was the youngest American company commander in World War I, viewed most of the terrain and some of the fighting himself, meticulously interviewed survivors and strategists to produce his staccato narrative...
...commander of the 37th Tank Battalion, Abrams rode point in the race from Normandy to the Rhine in a string of command tanks-each of which he named Thunderbolt. He spearheaded the column that relieved the encircled 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Often cut off himself, the cigar-chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army...
...bombers and fighter-bomber sorties that passed the 1,000 level. Attleboro continued to turn up Red rice in huge quantities, by last week had garnered a record 2,366 tons, could claim over 1,000 soldiers of the Viet Cong 9th Division and the North Vietnamese 101st Regiment killed in the intensive month-long campaign...
...Force and Coast Guard men had been assembled; one Marine company had been flown down from Danang for the visit in jungle fatigues and camouflaged steel helmets. Forty U.S. flags fluttered along with unit flags for such fighting outfits as the 1st Air Cav, the 1st Marine and the 101st Airborne Brigade...
...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...