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...ordeal triggered the massive infusion of men into the battle. Operation Attleboro had begun as a routine operation a month ago, with elements of the U.S. 25th Division and 196th Light Infantry. Now more 1st Division units and the 173rd Airborne Brigade were brought up. Major General William E. DePuy, commander of the 1st Division, took charge of Attleboro and set up an operational headquarters at Dau Tieng. The once-sleepy village bordering a large rubber plantation soon resembled a World War II beachhead as lumbering C-1235 transports and darting helicopters brought in hundreds of tons of supplies from...
...division commander, Major General William DePuy, held no grudges. "The 1st Division called in the air strikes close because this was close combat," he said. "This is a rough business. When you're only off by 50 meters and the planes are going 150 or 200 miles an hour, these things are going to happen." Added DePuy: "I would ask for the strikes again in the same situation. We would have lost a lot more than we lost to the napalm if we had tried to winkle them out of those bunkers alone...
...Jungle. "The game in the jungle," says the Big Red One's commanding officer, Major General William E. Depuy, "is to send in a small force as bait, let the enemy attack, and be able to react with a larger force in reserve near by. But if the enemy doesn't want to fight, then the jungle goes off in 360 directions. There just aren't enough landing zones in the jungle to corner Susie in the roundhouse...
HARVARD UNION Ellison, g. g., Finegan Markwett, c.p. c.p., Engle Pickard, p. p., Kingston Hartnett, 1d. 1d., DeLong Park, 2d. 2d., Garafolo Mulliken, 3d. 3d., Stone Hatch, c. c., DePuy Dreier, 1a. 1a., Finegan Lane, 2a. 2a., Lauterbach Glenn, 3a. 3a., Simson Wallace, 1h. 1h., Adam Murphy, o.h. o.h., Potter...
...Gardner '10, who was second to Rand in that event in the class games this spring, together with A. L. Besse '10, and M. B. Giddings '08 in the high hurdles, constitute a fast squad. Yale has formidable competitors, however, in L. V. Howe '08, C. M. dePuy '08 and D. R. Robbins...