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...final week, Communist terrorists began campaigning with a vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket and mortar assault against Can Tho, largest city in the Delta...
Howard and his platoon of 17 Marine scouts were trapped on the grassy slopes of Hill 488, deep inside Viet Cong territory south of Danang soon after midnight on June 15, 1966. For six hours, an entire North Vietnamese battalion of more than 350 men tried to dislodge them with mortars, machine guns and grenades. Every American was wounded, some in hand-to-hand combat in which Marines clubbed attackers with rifle butts or hacked them with knives. At least 48 of the Communists were killed by the platoon; many others were lost when Howard summoned up artillery...
...Garages have been dug out for tanks and vehicles; 20-ft.-high earth work barricades protect artillery em placements, and the miles of minefields are dotted with tank traps. The enemy is prepared to defend the heights with two armored brigades, one mechanized infantry brigade, one mobile brigade, 18 battalions of artillery, and six in fantry brigades, each with its own tank battalion - a total of some...
...north from their victory on the west bank of the Jordan, an Israeli armored brigade was ready to lash out from a point just north of the kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas...
...next strong point-Tel Faqr -the Barak (Lightning) Battalion also lost most of its halftracks and was pinned down by fire. Groups of five and ten Israelis charged up the hill. The torpedo charges for breaching the barbed wire had been lost with the half tracks, and the first troopers threw themselves onto the wire so that their comrades could cross on their bodies. Losses were heavy from mines and machine guns: at least one in ten was killed before the Israelis who made it to the summit plunged into the tunnels to hunt down the defenders. At one point...