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These were the planes that might also endanger the steady stream of U.S. Air Force Globemasters which had already begun to pump vehicles, artillery and troops into Elisabethville from Leopoldville at U Thant's urgent request. Other Globemasters were bringing more U.N. troops direct from Europe; a battalion of Swedish and a battalion of Irish soldiers arrived at the height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage...
...Paris. It is said that Lord Duveen spent a fortune in tipping ships' stewards to make sure that his deck chair would be put alongside that of the multiest of the multimillionaires on the passenger list. At one time, he is reputed to have had on salary a battalion of butlers who would duly report from the best homes of Britain and America any tips they might pick up on who might be ready to sell another heirloom. Duveen also had a wicked way of dealing with his competitors. Once, when a High Church duke asked him to take...
...inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour forced march by 1,000 Communists armed with Soviet weapons. At a cost of 20 dead and "numerous" wounded, the paratroopers fought their way out of the trap, and claimed to have killed 100 of the attackers...
...SOUTH VIET NAM, the Communist guerrillas have doubled their strength in the past six months and seem able to muster a battalion-sized force at any point they choose, strike with it, and be gone before the road-bound army of President Ngo Dinh Diem can retaliate. Washington expects at any time a Communist announcement that the western plateau of South Viet Nam, next to the Laos border, is "liberated territory," complete with a "capital'' and a Communist government. Should it happen, Washington suggested last week, the U.S. will dispatch regimental combat teams to help train the South...
...37th Battalion was a fearsome weapon of destruction from the moment it wheeled into action in Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...