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...hatred. Early in his career he showed that there was nothing undersized about his brain. A specialist in the "dirty tricks" of unconventional warfare, he used hell-raising tactics on Choiseul Island during World War II to such advantage that the Japanese believed Krulak's Marine paratrooper battalion was a full division. At 43, he became the corps' youngest brigadier general...
Headstone-to-Headstone. But in the parts of Saigon where the mixed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong units made a strong effort, there was fierce and bloody fighting. One enemy battalion took positions near the entrance to Tan Son Nhut, where a French military cemetery stands. It took South Vietnamese paratroops two days of headstone-to-headstone and house-to-house battling to drive the Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers...
Meanwhile, to the south near Hue, four U.S. 101st Airborne companies and the Black Panther company of South Viet Nam's 1st Division trapped a North Vietnamese battalion in the village of Phuoc Yen. Throwing a tight cordon around the village, they mercilessly pounded it with artillery for more than a day. As the besieged Communists tried to break out, they were shot down. Then the artillery was stopped, and for an hour loudspeakers in planes and on the ground called on the survivors to surrender...
...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 1,370 Communist troops while suffering 110 dead of their...
...lieutenant colonel commanding the 37th Battalion of General George S. Patton's 4th Armored Division, Abrams was Patton's point man, led the victorious Allied sweep across Europe from France to Czechoslovakia in 1944-45. Abrams was the only tanker, in fact, who Patton ever admitted might be his equal. In the lead tank of the 37th sat Abrams himself, often far out in front of the nearest U.S. units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam...