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...battle scenes, Richardson enlisted 600 horses, 727 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantrymen, compliments of the Turkish Chief of Staff. Trouble was, most of the horses were aged mounts purchased from the U.S. Army when it disbanded its cavalry. When it came time to film the 1?-mile charge, many of the horses could barely finish. As for the soldiers, they just kept smiling broadly-at the camera. And when they were called upon to fall in battle, they spoiled everything by rolling on the ground and laughing...
...Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before it could be mounted...
Motivated Jousters. The memorial services came to their panting climax last week when 500 costumed university students, assisted by "cavalrymen" recruits from local riding schools, appeared before thousands of tourists on the hallowed field near Hastings to re-fight the battle, in abbreviated form...
Aircav Commander Major General John Norton quickly picked it up. Pulling his heli-borne cavalrymen out of three-week-old Operation Thayer five miles away, he dropped a 29-man Blue Team near the downed choppers. Within hours, in fierce fighting, often in chest-deep water, the Blues had killed 91 of the enemy. Some 70 of them turned out to be from the Aircav's old foe in previous Binh Dinh battles: the North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from...
...home base in Fort Benning, Ga., where their combat expertise is well applied. The new First Team is still 70% "regular Army"-career soldiers rather than draftees-and thus man ages to retain a solid base of experience among junior officers and sergeants. Nearly 100 Air Cavalrymen re-enlist or extend their duty in Viet Nam each month-a credit to the division's high morale...