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American Philosophy. Calley returned to his company, arriving just as its casualties were being helicoptered back from an assault-six men dead and twelve wounded. Calley helped unload the helicopter: "The chopper was filled with gear-rifles, rucksacks. The thing that really hit me hard was the heavy boots. There must have been six boots there with feet still in them, brains all over the place, and everything was just saturated with blood. I believe there was one arm on [the helicopter] and a piece of a man's face." How did Calley react? "Anger . . . hate . . . fear . . . generally sick...
...year-old war in Indochina ushered in the Age of the Chopper, and the allied thrust into Laos last week vividly demonstrated why. The whirr of helicopter rotors accompanied the vast operation at every stage: airborne Cobra gunships softened up, or "prepped," landing sites with machine-gun and rocket fire; workhorse Hueys lifted entire battalions of South Vietnamese troops into enemy territory and evacuated the wounded; giant Chinooks supplied ground forces with everything from medicines to cannon. During a single day of the offensive, U.S. helicopters flew 1,100 sorties into Laos. Yet even as the wondercraft...
...antiaircraft guns sprayed out a murderous shield of defensive fire. "They've got stuff out there, man, we don't even know what it is," said one pilot returning from Laos to Khe Sanh. "I had things flying past me looked big as basketballs." At least one chopper company received enemy hits on every one of its craft during a single...
...other civilian combat photographers, he had camped on the border for at least four days, frustrated by U.S. and Vietnamese refusal to allow on-the-spot coverage. When a few flights were finally authorized by the Vietnamese, Burrows and the others were given the first seats. Their chopper strayed over powerfully defended enemy territory and was shot down. No survivors could be seen from...
When Easy Rider was released, it looked for a time as though public attitudes might soften. A lot of people were on the side of Captain America and his fringed partner Billy, shotgunned off their glittering, raked choppers on a Southern back road. But for every cinemagoer who vicariously rode with Fonda and Hopper in that movie, there were probably ten who went with their redneck killers in the pickup truck. The chorus from press and TV remains pretty well unchanged, resembling the bleat of Orwell's sheep in Animal Farm: "Four wheels good, two wheels bad!" The image...