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...Philippines last week became the fourth nation to join South Viet Nam and the U.S. in the war against the Communists. President Ferdinand Marcos signed into law a bill dispatching 2,000 Philippine troops to South Viet Nam: an engineer battalion and an accompanying security battalion targeted for duty in a hazardous section along the Cambodian border. His signature was a reminder that the American and South Vietnamese troops do not fight alone...
...major action on the ground, North Vietnamese regulars who had been rampaging through Phu Yen province felt another kind of pressure. Flushed with victory over a lightly armed South Vietnamese company of C.l.D.G. (Civilian Irregular Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that...
Lieut. Thung, however, decided to play the hero and attack on his own. Trouble was, the U.S. command had dispatched a battalion of 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) by Caribou transport and then helicopter from Kontum to join up with the 101st in Tuy Hoa. All night, Thung's mortars blasted away at the U.S. position on a small plateau, but with little effect...
Still continuing, Operation Hawthorne has thus far killed some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars in a spoiling operation designed to throw off balance any enemy monsoon offensive plans. All up and down South Viet Nam, the U.S. has been out hunting in a record number of battalion-size or larger operations (25 last week). Significantly they are making contact, after nearly eight months in which North Vietnamese General Giap's forces and the Viet Cong were notably reluctant to fight. Yet another sign of the quickening war: Giap has moved two fresh regiments from staging areas in Laos into...
...Rear. Operation Kahuku, which cleared Cu Chi, was but one of some 60 major Allied search-and-destroy missions in the last 100 days. While the headlines were filled with South Viet Nam's Buddhist-fueled political crisis, the Allies, running an average of 15 battalion-size-or-larger operations each week, have been methodically hunting down the enemy. From north of Hue to south of Saigon, from the Cambodian border in the Central Highlands to Binh Dinh on the South China Sea, spearheaded by the armor and artillery and airpower of the U.S., the Allies have been hitting...