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...bombing has been so effective, Brown said, that the flow of supplies has been cut to 50% of what North Vietnamese fighting units in the South require. As a result, while the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies were launching an average of seven battalion-sized attacks a month in 1965, this year the figure has dropped to 1.7 -though there are now more Communist battalions in the South. The Communists have failed to mount a single major offensive on their own all year, have instead been prodded by probing U.S. troops into a number of counterattacks...
...enemy's losses each month. And the enemy's manpower squeeze has already begun to seep down into the Delta, making it more than ever ripe for American thrusting. Not long ago the government captured an unprecedented 55 soldiers of the main force So Trang battalion, once one of the Viet Cong's finest. Among them was a boy of only 14, and the average age of the 55 was 17. They had been press-ganged into the Communist ranks only ten days before...
...each. Ojukwu's Ibos dominate the oil-rich East, and they want to keep things that way. Gowon, commanding 7,000 troops who are armed with sophisticated weapons and stirred by a stern Moslem faith, could easily put intense-perhaps fatal -pressure on Ojukwu's single battalion of 2,500 men. If he decides to, Nigeria may yet add to its grisly record before...
...weeks, some 11,000 of Walt's Marines, together with two battalions of South Vietnamese soldiers, have been keeping watch on the Demilitarized Zone, where several North Vietnamese regiments were once readying to cross to the South. The North Vietnamese now seem to have lost all desire to face the Marines. But a Hanoi battalion caught an outnumbered company of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division in the rugged central highlands 18 miles from the Cambodian border and inflicted "heavy" casualties in a 90-minute fire fight...
...shipped out last January to South Viet Nam. Assigned to the 1st Division, Quealy - against the advice of senior officers at field headquarters in Dau Tieng - insisted on boarding a helicopter of medics and troop reinforcements flying to the relief of the Big Red One's 1st Battalion, under attack in War Zone C northwest of Saigon (see THE WORLD). Landing at the battle site, Father Quealy hurriedly gave last rites to dying soldiers from a platoon of B Company. Just then, a Viet Cong soldier stepped out from the brush, fired at the chaplain with a machine...