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Salute to the Tube. To learn how to avoid Viet Cong booby traps and needle-pointed poisoned bamboo punji stakes, infantrymen will be shown eight hours of video tapes on Viet Nam. In a lesson on military courtesv, recruits watch a televised salute and then salute the screen while they are checked by their own sergeant. Altogether, the Army has assembled more than 2,000 TV tapes on such wide-ranging subjects as how to bandage wounds, drive correctly and repair radios. Unlike old training films, which cost three times the $500 budgeted to crank out a minute of televised...
...Bamboo Breathing. After two days of fighting, the Marines took the village, only to be driven back by a vicious Communist counterattack. Next day the Marines drove through Dai Do again-and again the North Vietnamese drove them back, supported by 130-mm. guns firing from North Viet Nam. But it was the 320th's last lunge. Under artillery and air strikes, it was forced to retreat northward, leaving 856 of its dead behind, as U.S. jets pursued and pounded its remnants. The Marines lost 68 dead, had 323 wounded seriously enough to require evacuation...
They did, crawling from the rubble of the village or popping out of the Songbo River, where some had lain submerged while breathing through bamboo shoots. In all, 95 surrendered, one of the biggest such catches of the war. A body count turned up another 135 dead, bringing the total to 352 in the 76-hour battle. Allied losses were eight killed and 37 wounded. Among the Communist dead were the commander of the North Vietnamese unit-the 8th Battalion-his executive officer and three company commanders. All told for the week in eastern I Corps, the allies killed...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...
...Sanh has been dug out of the red clay of a plateau that is ringed by high hills thick with trees and bamboo. Some 15 miles south of the DMZ and only ten miles east of the Laotian border, the Marine base lies directly athwart the easiest infiltration routes into South Viet Nam. To eliminate the roadblock, the North Vietnamese have ranged an estimated 20,000 men directly around Khe Sanh, have at least another 20,000 in reserve in Laos and immediately north of the DMZ, all located within 20 miles of the post. Together, they constitute the largest...