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...first appeared in newspapers around the world, that anguished exchange by field telephone between a battle-weary young infantry lieutenant on a Vietnamese hill and his battalion commander was disturbingly reminiscent of classic episodes of battlefield rebellion. Ground down to two-thirds of its original strength after five days of sharp combat, a U.S. Army unit-Company A of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's 3rd Battalion-had balked at orders to advance once again on well-bunkered North Vietnamese positions...
...incident, which took place in rolling, heavily jungled country in the Song Chang river valley, 30 miles south of Danang, came to light accidentally. Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas happened to be sitting in Lieut. Colonel Robert C. Bacon's 3rd Battalion headquarters when it occurred. The brief episode spanned less than an hour, and it directly involved six of Company A's 60 men: five fatigued and panicky G.I.s and Lieut. Eugene Shurtz Jr., 26, a green company commander whose basic error, as another officer put it, was that "he tried to reason with the men when...
Early in the battle, Bacon's predecessor as battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Eli P. Howard Jr., was killed when his helicopter was shot down; seven others died with him, including A.P. Photographer Oliver Noonan. The 3rd Battalion troops, including Alpha Company, set out to fight their way to the crash site. In temperatures that rose to well over 100° F. in the heavy, stale air trapped among the hills, Alpha Company experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called...
...thus in closing the Suez Canal, the only practical Soviet naval route to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. The 1967 disaster did, however, produce one advantage for Moscow: the intensive retraining needed by the shattered Egyptian forces enabled the Soviets to penetrate them with instructors, down to battalion and squadron level...
...Ranh and Saigon raids were not random attacks but deliberately planned to cause heavy casualties and political impact. Elsewhere there were isolated outbursts of fighting, the sharpest since mid-June, including a battalion-sized battle near the DMZ. The respite in major ground action continued into its eighth week, but it was clearly a selective lull...