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...most spectacular days, Keefe birdied eight of the 15 holes he played, sinking 30-foot putts on the 2nd, 7th, and 10th holes, and chipping in another birdie on the 5th hole. By the end of his first nine holes, he was seven up on one opponent...
...swept out on the offensive, launching their largest operation of the war. Code-named "Resolved to Victory," the drive aimed at breaking the ring of three enemy divisions menacing Saigon. It employed more than 50 battalions formed from the U.S. 1st, 9th and 25th Divisions and the South Vietnamese 5th and 25th Divi sions, plus task forces of Vietnamese marines and paratroopers. The nearly 50,000 troops fanned out through a five-province belt around the capital...
...brigades (8,500 men) of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (which helped quell the Detroit riots last summer) stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and three outfits committed to NATO exigencies: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions (14,500 men each) at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, 14,300 strong at Fort Carson, Colo...
...bridge outside Saigon as the V.C. tried to cut the capital's link with the major U.S. bases of Long Binh and Bien Hoa to the northeast. U.S. intelligence placed three enemy divisions no more than two nights' march from the capital: the 7th NVA and the 5th V.C. divisions to the north and west, and the 9th V.C. Division to the northeast...
...Citadel. The Marines celebrated by triumphantly running up the Stars and Stripes in full view of modern Hué, across the river. The death toll was among the most expensive of the war: nearly 450 allied dead, including some 100 U.S. Marines, and so many casualties that the 5th Battalion's 1st Regiment was finally left at half strength...