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...hour period last week, 31 U.S. fighting men died in Viet Nam. Among them were 16 Marines helping to mop up a trapped enemy unit below Danang and one infantryman in a patrol that was ambushed 40 miles north of Saigon. One of the 31, impossible to single out, became the 30,000th American to be killed in action in Viet Nam since the grisly log was begun on Jan. 1, 1961. Almost half of the total (14,400) died this year, many in the three major offensives launched by the Communists since the Tet holiday...
Tactical or Political? Another area of concern is the region around Danang, the country's second-largest city and the hub of I Corps. Three times in six days last week, Communist gunners raked allied base complexes in Danang with rocket and mortar fire. The South Vietnamese 51st Regiment tangled with a North Vietnamese unit twelve miles south of the city and reported killing 253. In Danang itself, a rash of terrorist grenadings resulted in a one-day, 24-hour curfew. Yet the remainder of I Corps, not long ago the main theater of fighting, appears unaffected. Allied intelligence...
Your last letter really turned me on, baby. I can't forget either how great that last night together was-that wild stereo and the warm sake and the moon outside lighting our pad and best of all you you you. Everything here in Danang is okay but I still don't know when I can get back to Tokyo. By the way my pal Sam is taking R&R in Tokyo next week so if he calls help him find a nice girl. All my love...
...what's even worse is that the counterintelligence spooks here in Danang say they have to read all my letters now because they've heard I'm in contact with a guy who used to be a Japanese spy - like two wars ago! So lots of love for now but like I said maybe we better not write for awhile. A big kiss from your...
...Danang was infiltrated briefly three weeks ago, but the real enemy interest seems to be elsewhere. Farther south in I Corps, the U.S. Americal and the South Vietnamese 2nd Divisions pushed west of Quang Ngai city last week to try to forestall an anticipated attack on that provincial capital. The entire North Vietnamese 3rd Division is believed to have moved north from II Corps into Quang Ngai, a historic Communist stronghold where the Viet Cong might attempt to set up a provisional government if they could win control of the city even temporarily. If that move succeeded, its propaganda value...