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...really vicious dogfight," recalls Olds, "sort of a general melee with our planes and theirs rolling, twisting and diving all over the place." Olds squeezed off five missiles, and two of the heat-seeking Sidewinders slammed home in enemy tail pipes. With Dawn Patrol grace, he adds: "Both pilots were able to bail out, I'm glad to say." In the second of the day's kills, Olds dived on the fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop...
...single shot blasted the night: Brown's radio man, shifting his M16, had accidentally triggered a tracer round -almost certainly disclosing the team's position. Brown hung tough, hoping that the cross-wave of jungle echoes would confuse the enemy searchers. It did, and at dawn the team moved back in to hunt out the Viet Cong base camp...
...chests, plug bottles of plasma into dangling arms, give bloody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to corpses and wounded alike, shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since he was a boy in Winston-Salem...
...assault on the DMZ itself began on the eve of Ho Chi Minh's 77th birthday. Dawn broke over a formidable invasion fleet steaming slowly off the coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another...
...using flamethrowers!" A column rumbling up with fresh ammunition for the Marines ran right into the hose of fire. Six vehicles went up with a roar, and the ammunition began exploding, nicely silhouetting the attackers as targets for the Marines. "I kept telling my men, just hang on until dawn and we'll be all right," said Sergeant Richard Anderson, a squad leader. They did, and the dawn came up with the welcome thunder of U.S. fighter-bombers. The North Vietnamese fled back out through the wire, leaving behind 196 dead. The outnumbered Marines held the camp...