Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corps Commander Cao flew off to 1st Division headquarters near Hue in an effort to woo rebellious officers back to Ky's side, but no sooner had he ended his speech and climbed aboard the U.S. helicopter that was to return him to Danang than a South Vietnamese lieutenant took a shot at the chopper. An American machine gunner cut him down with a single burst...
...Happy Valley" of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) once again came to grips with the elusive Viet Cong-this time a battalion that ran and fought for four days. Operation Crazy Horse was triggered when four Reds walked into an ambush, and documents on their bodies told of an impending Viet Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar...
...Scared to Fight? Even in the rebellious I Corps area around Danang and Hue, the majority of the Vietnamese troops were still operating aggressively and effectively. Though the 1st Division-loyal to its dissident, dismissed commander, Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi-has all but stopped operations for the moment, the 2nd Division at Quang Ngai is fighting hard and well. Countrywide, the Vietnamese have increased their weekly number of battalion-size operations from 51 in January to 77 in the first week of May. Simultaneously, U.S. forces have mounted more small-unit and battalion-scale operations than ever before...
...goddam V.C. are too scared to fight," snorted one American general last week. He had just returned from Operation Birmingham, a sweep by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division through the jungled hills along the Cambodian border in South Viet Nam's War Zone C. For nearly a month, the 8,000 men of the Big Red One had bulled their way through triple-canopied rain forest, often recklessly planting small units of their own men as bait. There were no takers...
...Parsons, 43, an adviser attached to a Vietnamese infantry regiment, who had lost one eye and part of the other, as the President pinned a Purple Heart on the left collar of his pajamas. "There's no problem at all. I'm ready to go back." The 1st Infantry Division's Pfc. Antonio Dell' Osso, 23, who had been torn apart by a land mine, was just as positive. "Sir," he said with tears in his eyes, "I'd do it again...