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...elite 173rd Airborne Brigade plunged into eight hours of furious hand-to-hand combat with screaming, cymbal-clashing Viet Cong guerrillas 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The toll of Red dead may have reached 600. Three days later, in jungles controlled by the Communists for 20 years, a battalion of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division repelled scores of attacking Viet Cong, killed at least 150 before the assault was broken. At the coastal town of Chu Lai, U.S. Marines, backed by the Seventh Fleet, made an amphibious landing aimed at flushing out some 3,500 Viet Cong believed...
...where the artist would do the final oil painting from life. Ceiling zero, visibility less than 100 yards, torrential rains. Nevertheless, the travelers negotiated a ride aboard an Army Caribou. Back on location, Koerner set up his easel on the exposed hill occupied by the 1st Battalion of the 7th Division, an outfit that would soon be in action. Mused Koerner later: "You think that war brutalizes people, but the soldiers were so kind to each other...
...marines in Viet Nam boast a 5-1 kill ratio over the enemy, have spread their original beachhead until now they control 400 sq. mi. of territory. When a bad bit of intelligence unloaded the 101st Screaming Eagles from their helicopters right into a battalion of Viet Cong near An Khe, the Eagles fought hand-to-mortar until the field was theirs. Soon the increasing aggressiveness of American ground troops everywhere was adding yet another dimension of fear and uncertainty for the V.C., already long harassed by U.S. air and sea power...
...worst enemy. The Reds are less and less welcome in villages, since the villagers are learning that their presence may well bring the planes. Forced to move oftener, the guerrillas are getting less and less sleep. Captures and desertions are rising. Recently captured in the Gruyere Triangle: a V.C. battalion commander's order that his troops eschew, among other things, "collective singing of folk songs" and handclapping for fear of detection...
Unlucky Lucky. One army officer who has been heard from, though, is Lieut. Colonel Untung, the obscure battalion commander in Sukarno's palace guard who launched the abortive revolt. Untung, whose name in Indonesian means "lucky," pushed nomenclature too far: riding on a bus also named Lucky, Untung was recognized near the Middle Java town of Semarang by two soldiers. Untung vaulted from the bus window but was nabbed by fellow passengers, who took him for a pickpocket and beat him severely before surrendering him to the soldiers. At week's end Untung was back in Djakarta...