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...show up to ferry us in a flotilla of six-man groups to the assault landing zone. I ride in the third chopper (the fourth or fifth is thought to be the most desirable) with Sergeant Henry R. Campbell of Newington, Conn., who won a Bronze Star in a firefight last October. Campbell is modest about his star ("Hell, all I did was put out all the firepower I could"), but he is also wryly amused by the Stateside impression of the nature...
Ground action was light in South Vietnam. Two infantrymen were killed in a firefight east of Saigon, and seven Marines were wounded by a booby trap south of Da Nang...
...blistered, his rifle jams and he breaks his glasses. In despair, Pablo, who is ignored by the other guerrillas, decides to desert at the first opportunity, but a veteran member of the band finally befriends him. Under the influence of the older guerrilla, Pablo stands his ground in a firefight with the guardia...
...have been cut for months. Only 17 miles along Route 6, which stretches like a muddy arrow through the countryside's monsoon-flooded paddies, the force ran into heavy enemy resistance at the hamlet of Tang Kauk. After losing 19 dead and 124 wounded in an eight-hour firefight, the government forces fell back to regroup. Closing in, Communist sappers blew up bridges in front and behind the column. Temporarily marooned, the humbled task force retreated two miles. At week's end, as the task force repaired bridges and prepared for another push, enemy forces operating...
...199th Light Infantry Brigade and the first general to die of enemy small-arms fire in Viet Nam; of a chest wound; 67 miles northeast of Saigon. A 28-year Army veteran on his second Viet Nam tour Bond was inspecting the scene of a recent firefight when he was hit by a single sniper's bullet. Four other generals have been killed in action-all in plane or helicopter crashes...