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...areas in Operation Dagger Thrust. Though the marines nabbed few V.C. this time, Dagger Thrust is a valuable new tactic.Since the task force's troops are always based at sea rather than in shore installations, security can be complete-and so can the surprise of the stab. Near Danang, the marines were using a new device to smoke the V.C. out: portable smoke generators to spot the updraft from concealed tunnel entrances...
Though U.S. and Vietnamese bomb strikes have risen to a rate of 450 sorties a day, they are hardly indiscriminate. Normally, a strike begins with the request of a Vietnamese province chief, whose Vietnamese divisional commander must approve. Tactical Air Control centers in Saigon or Danang send out the planes, which are preceded to the target by a FAC (Forward Air Controller) plane. FAC marks the exact target with a smoke rocket, and the attackers then "hit the smoke," usually with remarkable accuracy...
...than 100,000 homeless peasants and villagers have flooded Binh Dinh province alone, transforming Qui Nhon, the provincial capital, into the refugee capital of the country. There are now 95 reception centers and camps in Binh Dinh, but only ten trained Vietnamese social service workers to run them. In Danang, when the camps filled to capacity, the authorities had to put up roadblocks to prevent thousands more from streaming...
Moonlight helicoptering is not the only invention of U.S. Marine Corps Lieut. Colonel David Clement (see above). During his four-month stay in the mountainous jungles northwest of Danang, the lean, leathery, 40-year-old North Carolinian has applied the best of counterinsurgency techniques to the dirtiest of conditions...
...major V.C. supply center, Le My, early last May. First thing they did was to rebuild two Red-blown bridges. Then Clement reopened Le My's market for the first time in five years; it now sells everything from tinned sardines to Japanese sandals brought in from Danang. Le My had had no school since 1958; last week, Clement inaugurated a two-room schoolhouse and exchanged greetings with its 100 pupils, who screeched "Big Joe No. 1" as he strode in. A dispensary manned by Marine Corps doctors and Navy corpsmen treats 200 Vietnamese patients...