Word: 173rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says SP4 Ethen Woodward, a mortarman with the 1st Infantry Division. "I hadn't had a hot shower in ten months." Some first seek out the local R & R center and gorge on fresh milk, hamburgers and ice cream. Next objective is usually, in the words of a 173rd Airborne trooper, "a girl." But, he added carefully, "I'm also very interested in the cultural bit. I figure I may only be coming this way once." And because they may never come this way again, large numbers of R & Ring servicemen earnestly seek, watch, explore and examine...
Neither Food nor Water. The battle began when the 2nd Battalion of the 173rd Airborne brigade neared the top of the first of Hill 875's twin ridges. Communists in concealed bunkers suddenly slashed the lead company with withering machine-gun fire. The battalion's trailing company moved back down the hill to try to cut out a helicopter landing zone for reinforcements. A flanking North Vietnamese force, poised waiting for the troopers, pounced and hit them hard...
...took place within 20 miles of the Cambodian border. In the craggy jungles of the western Central Highlands around the town, six North Vietnamese regiments with a total strength of some 17,000 men have been bivouacked for months. Some 20,000 soldiers of the U.S. 4th Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade have been guarding the area, which includes the major U.S. base of Pleiku. This is the time of year when the rainy season comes to an end around Dak To-and the Communists dry off and come out fighting. Their plan had been to drive eastward from...
...tactic: the use of bunkers manned by a small force to screen main-force units and inflict casualties on U.S. infantrymen while the main-force fighters escaped. The Communists have been using that tactic with considerable success ever since. Last month, for example, a company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ran into a small group of Red soldiers and gave chase. The pursuit led them into a crossfire of massed machine guns concealed in 30 sandbagged bunkers; 25 Americans were killed and another 35 wounded...
Bare Hands. The resurgence of fighting in the mist-shrouded Highlands came after a company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade made contact with North Vietnamese regulars who had been waiting in sanctuaries across the border in Cambodia. When the Americans brushed into a small knot of the Communist forces, they pursued their quarry up a muddy hillside in the jungle near Dak To, seven miles from where the frontiers of Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam meet. The U.S. troops were led right into a torrent of machine-gun fire from 30 sandbagged bunkers atop the slope. By the time...