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...join you in your tribute to an outstanding soldier and great American, Lieut. General William C. Westmoreland [May 8]. Having served for more than two years as "Westy's" executive officer with the 34th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, both at Fort Bragg and in North Africa and Sicily, I can testify to the fact that he is a leader who brings to our Viet Nam campaign soldiering that inspires the men who serve with him, and a wisdom in war which in my opinion is unsurpassed. In World War II, his officers and men called him "Superman...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sky diving and parachuting from Fort Bragg...
...show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers during maneuvers in Germany...
...Army. The pine-forested acres of North Carolina's Fort Bragg provide a rugged training ground and home for the 5,600 men of the Army's Special Forces. These men, who wear distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts...
...them in the time requested. Its Richmond, Va.. field center was asked for 38,000 cots, had them on their way to Florida overnight. Its Philadelphia clothing center dispatched 55,000 camouflage coverings for helmets. Some 850,000 yds. of parachute webbing moved swiftly to Memphis and Fort Bragg. Out of New York, the agency sent 1,000,000 Ibs. of frozen food to deployed naval units, stocked the ships on Cuba patrol with 45 days' worth of supplies. In one week 350,000 ft. of Kodak photo-reconnaissance film sped to Navy and Air Force flyers...