Word: heli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aircav Commander Major General John Norton quickly picked it up. Pulling his heli-borne cavalrymen out of three-week-old Operation Thayer five miles away, he dropped a 29-man Blue Team near the downed choppers. Within hours, in fierce fighting, often in chest-deep water, the Blues had killed 91 of the enemy. Some 70 of them turned out to be from the Aircav's old foe in previous Binh Dinh battles: the North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from...
...fingers calloused from handshak ing, the Governor has used bus, heli copter and his family's jet-prop plane, The Wayfarer, to bound from one up state community to the next. He has clambered up ladders at construction sites, tossed footballs with college boys, delivered weighty university lectures on federalism, at one point even dropped in on a Jewish circumcision celebration...
...faculty at Wolters and Rucker consists increasingly of gung-ho Viet Nam veterans who imbue their students with the sense of mission that marks their units in the war zone. "The heli copter has done a great job," one gunship pilot tells his students. "If the chopper hadn't been in Viet Nam, that place would have been long gone by now." The close-cropped heads of warrant officer candidates nod enthusiastically. Says Major General John Tolson, commander of the Army Aviation Center: "They don't seem to find what they want in college. They just want...
Four of a Kind. As the world's most mobile division, nothing like the First Team has ever existed in the history of warfare. Some 3,000 of its men are trained paratroopers, and the rest are expert in heli-assault landings. Its 428 helicopters have doubled the total number of choppers in use in Viet Nam. They range from scores of workaday Hueys to 48 Chinook transport copters with a lift capacity of some 13,000 Ibs., the first to arrive in Viet Nam. Four of the First's helicopters are the only ones of their breed...
...tide completely in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, 100 miles to the southwest. In a sharply executed "search-and-destroy" operation, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...