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...northeast of Saigon. The region was a tangled, menacing battleground, whose name, like Tennyson's Balaclava, derives from its bloody history in South Viet Nam's ugly guerrilla war. As each flight dipped into the tiny landing zone, an escort of twelve rocket-carrying UH 1-B ("Huey") choppers sprayed the scrubby underbrush with rockets and machine-gun fire. Not a single hostile shot was returned as the troops hit the ground and fanned into the jungle...
...Most Essential Unit." So effective have the Hueys been in counteracting Viet Cong ground fire that some H21 pilots have refused to carry out missions rather than fly without Huey escorts. Since last October, the Hueys have flown 3,600 sorties, fired 1,800 rockets and 200,000 rounds of machine-gun ammunition, and killed countless hundreds of Reds. Two enlisted men of the company (whose official military designation is Utility Tactical Transport Company) have been killed in combat, and 19 other members of the 113-man unit have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Today U.S. military officials estimate...
...monopoly. The antiquated "banana" copters have become increasingly vulnerable as the Viet Cong learn how to use new rapid-fire weapons; in one sortie near the delta village of Apbac last January, they downed five of 14 helicopters, including one of the 24 fast, rocket-firing HU-1B ("Huey") helicopters that now escort most missions. Last week a second company of 24 Hueys arrived at a new base near Vinh Long. "Operations were down in the hundreds a year ago," says General Paul Harkins, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. "Now they're in the thousands...
Like the Kennedys of Massachusetts, the Longs of Louisiana are a perennially blooming family tree. This season has Congressman Gillis Long, 39, distant cousin of deceased Governors Huey and Earl, declaring himself a gubernatorial hopeful for 1964. Then there is another cousin, State Senator Speedy O. Long, 34; Speedy wants the governor's mansion too, but U.S. Senator Russell B. Long has already pledged support to Cousin Gillis. Meanwhile, Mrs. Blanche Long -Earl's widow and Russell's aunt by marriage-says that she will manage the campaign of a third candidate, not related, Louisiana...
...Senate seniority, which is now too valuable to surrender. Russell seems less regretful every year. "I have a fond and warm recollection of my father," he says. "but I have my job to do, and for a long time now I have been working for Russell Long, not Huey Long...