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...invaluable operational experience in new doctrines of guerrilla warfare. "We're writing the book of tactics ourselves," says Major Ivan Slavich, 35, commanding officer of the U.T.T. Company. In combat, the Hueys usually fly a circular "daisy chain" pattern so that each ship is always covered by the chopper immediately behind it. "Our machine guns have more actual killing power," says Slavich. "But our rockets seem to have a much greater psychological effect on the Viet Cong...
Scared Princess. The chopper pilots credit Slavich for the outstanding success of the Hueys, call their outfit "Slavich's People." Son of a retired San Francisco Democratic ward politician, Slavich served as a Marine Corps enlisted man after World War II, became an Army officer after graduation from the University of San Francisco in 1951. He won a combat infantryman's badge in Korea, became a pilot in 1955, took command of the U.T.T. Company last November. Slavich runs an easygoing outfit at his base at the edge of Saigon airport. Like tourists, some pilots tote cameras...
Wallace met Kennedy at Muscle Shoals, applauded the President's speech, then hopped into Kennedy's helicopter (with members of Alabama's congressional delegation) for a 35-minute jump to the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Ala. In the chopper, Kennedy and Wallace discussed Birmingham in what was carefully described as a "not unfriendly" manner. At Huntsville, the President switched over to his jet and headed for home. Alabama's Wallace, looking aggrieved, would tell newsmen merely that he and the President had a "brief discussion." Neither Wallace nor Kennedy had budged one whit from his position...
...equip an entire Red company. With U.S. helicopter crews working overtime, government troops killed and wounded 75 Viet Cong and captured tons of supplies in a sweep through a Red-infested area near the Cambodian border. But the strain of constant combat was beginning to tell on the U.S. chopper pilots. Heading back to base after 15 hours of continuous assaults against Red positions one night last week, a U.S. whirlybird suddenly toppled out of formation and, with its red flying lights carving crazy patterns in the darkness over the Mekong River, spun into the ground. When rescue workers reached...
...help; four of the five survivors died in their litters as they were slowly and stealthily carried through the Red-infested territory to the hospital in Nhatrang. Only the pilot lived to tell the story, and he could not tell much. Apparently there had been no enemy gunfire; the chopper had entered a cloud bank at 1,800 ft., and the next thing he remembered, he was lying on the ground...