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...time a battalion that ran and fought for four days. Operation Crazy Horse was triggered when four Reds walked into an ambush, and documents on their bodies told of an impending Viet Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar and machine-gun fire from a Red outpost hidden by shoulder-high, saw-edged elephant grass...
...Airmobile). From late January through mid-March, they had swept the scrub-grown slopes and rocky ridges of the An Lao Valley in a furious, 41-day string of fights that killed 1,342 Communist soldiers and netted 250 enemy weapons. The Reds moved back in when the Air Cav left, but last week-on the foggy coastal plain east of An Lao-they received an encore. "Operation Davy Crockett" proved as sharp-eyed as its namesake...
Stiffened Morale. Though the three Communist regiments in the An Lao Valley were reluctant to fight, the Air Cav's superb mobility forced them...
...north, south and west, the heliborne Americans hammered the Reds down onto an anvil of South Vietnamese motorized troops. One battalion was run to ground near the village of Tham Son, ten miles north of Bong Son. Red machine guns forced back an assault by troopers of one Air Cav battalion. The Americans dug in behind 2-ft. paddy walls and called for air strikes. Flights of fighter-bombers screeched in with napalm followed by bombs to spread the flaming jellied gasoline. Toll: 146 dead Reds...
After that, it was merely a question of mopping up. As the fleeing Communists were pinned down at every turn by helicopter-hopping Air Cav and South Vietnamese troops, the count mounted to 446 dead, 389 captured...