Word: 271st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment on Oct. 7, when it engaged in a fierce battle with the 271st Viet Cong Regiment nine miles northwest of the division's forward base at Lai Khe. During the burial of the 25 enemy dead, CBS Newsman Webster and Cameraman John Smith arrived on the scene from Saigon. Then-perhaps to oblige Smith's need for dramatic footage or their...
...nearly a month, the U.S. Army's famed 1st Infantry Division has been stalking an elusive quarry: the 271st Viet Cong Regiment, a hard-core Communist outfit that makes a specialty of terrorizing villages near "the Iron Triangle" northwest of Saigon. Last week, in the gloom of densely overgrown jungle trail 40 miles northwest of the capital, it was the 271st that found...
...hard-fighting Charlie. Some V.C. stormed into U.S. lines carrying 60-lb. Claymore mines in their hands, blowing themselves up along with surprised G.I.s. Such kamikaze tactics, plus the fact that the V.C. dead had curiously frozen grins on their faces, led some U.S. officers to speculate that the 271st got hopped up on drugs before it turned and fought its pursuers...
After 1½ hours, the 271st broke off the attack and retreated through the heavy jungle, carrying its wounded and most probably many of its dead. It left behind 103 V.C. corpses. U.S. losses were the heaviest taken in a single engagement since early summer: 55 killed, 66 wounded. But elsewhere the ground action was relatively light. Though the Allies sent a total of 56 battalion-size sweeps searching for enemy throughout South Viet Nam, the only other place where the Communists fought rather than ran was in the northern I Corps area. Near Quang Tri City, 80 miles north...