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With bulldozers and dynamite, they have moved mountains of sand, built some 40 miles of road, helped construct a 10,000-ft. runway from which the first jets will blast off against the enemy next month (see map). Ammo depots, a ten-tank fuel dump with a capacity of 230,000 gal., and a T-pier are all under construction; next month a floating 350-ft. De Long pier will be towed in from Charleston...
...Saigon. In a matter of hours, troops of the U.S.'s 1st Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were climbing aboard their planes. Throughout the night and into the day, the big C-123s and C-130s lumbered into Pleiku, disgorging men and machines, Jeeps, trucks, cannon, ammo and supplies. Then off the planes winged to Bien Hoa for another load. By next evening, a full brigade of American troops was in the trouble zone. The U.S. forces swiftly headed up Route 19 to set up a "blocking position" between the encircling Communists and the South Vietnamese relief...
...ORDNANCE. Shortages of .30-and .50-cal. machine-gun rounds, of ammunition for 20-mm. antitank guns and, most important, of 7.62-mm. ammo for the M-14 rifle. Most of the ammunition now being turned out goes straight to Viet Nam, leaving such units as the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe in short supply...
...same time, U.S. Navy and Air Force jets kept up their pounding of targets to the north. Barracks and PT boats, radar stations and ammo dumps caught the brunt of the aerial assault, and the bomb-line boomed ever closer to Hanoi. U.S. planes struck within 45 miles of the North Vietnamese capital, as if to challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow...
...Niedringhaus, things are looking up in Viet Nam. "It's hard to believe how much this war has changed," he says. "We used to have to scrounge damned near everything we needed, including weapons and ammo. And I'll tell you something else: We didn't kill a helluva lot of V.C. either...