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...guns could cool, a call came in from the nearby 1st Marine Division. The Reds were directing mortar fire on the leathernecks from bunkers protected by 15 feet of earth and logs-too thick for the marines' artillery to penetrate. The Los Angeles had the answer: armor-piercing shells that plow through the bunkers, explode inside. From the loudspeaker above Lieut. Marksheffel's head came the metallic voice of the Marine spotter ashore: "Come left 200 yards . . ." Three more rounds. Again the metallic voice: "Well done. Direct hit on mortar position. End of mission...
...Battleground broke the box-office jinx, the studios have bombarded audiences with World War II stories celebrating the infantry and airmen; the Navy's FT boats, submarines, carriers and frogmen; the fighting Coast Guard; the Marines ashore and in the air. Now comes the turn of the armor that spearheaded the U.S. drive through France in the summer...
Down from the north came Task Force i, commanded by the crack French horseman, Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries. While the armor kept to the road, Moroccans, Foreign Legionnaires and Chasseurs flushed out the valley heights, routing one Communist headquarters. Up from the south came Task Force 2, commanded by handsome, music-loving Colonel Claude Clement. A regiment of Mungs (little mountain people from Hoa Binh country) and tough Vietnamese soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire...
That, of course, did not minimize the unpleasant fact that the West is finding it necessary to take a big tuck in democracy's suit of armor...
...Viking, by Edison Marshall, seems to be written expressly for readers who collect unusual sensations. For the ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters...