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...basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their pains by walking off with the "Cholera Cup," awarded to the first contestant to fall in the Charles, and live. When asked his first reaction upon hitting the water, one of the Queen's crewmen replied," I shut my mouth,...fast...
...already in full flight. One group ran straight through their own minefield. Others grabbed at the skids of a helicopter that came to pick up the U.S. advisers; the overloaded chopper staggered to nearby Dak To, where it was forced to set down. (Six of the advisers and four crewmen died when another chopper that had come to pick them up at Dak To was shot down shortly after taking off.) In all, some 600 ARVN troops were dead or missing after the collapse. Said Captain Richard Cassidy, one of five advisers who survived the disaster: "Tan Canh fell because...
Last week, for the first time in two years, the ships that have been daily pounding the coast drew return fire from shore-based Communist artillery. One round hit the U.S.S. Lloyd Thomas, inflicting minor damage and injuring three crewmen...
Perhaps the most incredible episode comes when, after dragging three crewmen behind the Vance in the speedboat at 15 knots--very nearly drowning all three--Arnheiter leaves them in the Gulf of Siam to surveil a Vietnamese junk he suspects is spotting for a Chinese submarine reported to be in the area. Set adrift, the men try to raise the Vance on the radio; but Arnheiter has sailed out of range. Suddenly they spot a plane, an American plane. It drops down for a look at the junk and finds also a 16-foot speedboat with shark's teeth painted...
...fourth largest city, burning buildings and hurling stones at white-owned cars. The trouble spread to Salisbury's Harare township and to Bulawayo, Fort Victoria and Umtali, where eight blacks were killed by police gunfire. By week's end 18 persons were dead (including two white helicopter crewmen) and at least 80 wounded...