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...reports, "on which you wait while a gentle rain of JP4 or diesel fuel sifts endlessly down, and you are told there are no flights anywhere or the road is closed." Once he had to hitch a ride on a Vietnamese air force plane evacuating wounded marines from Phu Bai. Despite these difficulties,Rauch managed three trips into Hue and a visit to Danang to interview U.S. pilots returning from their combat missions...
...sources said the Khe Sanh base would be closed within three weeks as the helicopter units shifted operations eastward to their headquarters at Chu Lai and Phu Bai...
...newsmen picked up the dying Marine, an enemy mortar round landed a few yards from them, blowing them into a ditch. Shrapnel hit Greenway in the left leg. He was taken out of Hué in a helicopter and treated at the U.S. military hospital at Phu Bai...
Nonetheless, as enemy shells fell on Saigon and at least 25 other places as far south as Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta and as far north as Phu Bai on the coastal plains of I Corps, there was considerable concern in Saigon and Washington. Intelligence officers were all too aware that, despite the doubtless inflated allied claims of 33,000 Communists killed earlier, Hanoi's General Vo Nguyen Giap still has at his disposal in South Viet Nam about 90,000 or so fresh troops that were not committed in the first round...
...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...