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...still preferred shooting to talking. During the last weekly reporting period in late August, U.S. battle deaths totaled 190-somewhat fewer than the 244 killed during the week of the last "high point" earlier in the month. Enemy losses were put at 2,757. Last week U.S. Marines and infantrymen engaged in a number of sharp fire fights, most notably in the rolling hills near Danang and north of Saigon...
Ominously, the North Vietnamese in early May began to mass two regiments in the area and occasionally to shell Dak To and Ben Het. In the past, the U.S. would have rushed American infantrymen to the aid of the South Vietnamese. This time they did not. In an effort to head off an attack, Lien sent South Vietnamese battalions into craggy mountains around the two bases. At first the South Vietnamese fought well and aggressively. But after a month in the field, they wearied. Unfortunately, the South Vietnamese still seemed incapable of fighting a prolonged and bloody engagement with...
...Cambodian border in a configuration highly unusual for the U.S. Army: four scouts tooling 175cc Hondas, followed by three machine-gun-mounting vehicles to provide cover. The scouts' job is to spot Communist troop concentrations and supply caches, using their wheels to cover more ground than foot-slogging infantrymen can. Says one of the riders, SP4 James G. Tomusho, of Lorain, Ohio: "It sure beats walking...
When U.S. infantrymen or their South Vietnamese allies need fast air support these days, the planes that scramble to help them may well carry red, gold, blue and white markings rather than the simple blue and white of the U.S. Air Force. The planes are those of the Viet Nam Air Force, and the results are usually similar whichever service answers the alarm. The Viet Nam air force, as well as the MIG-equipped North Vietnamese air arm, grew out of a nine-pilot unit that the French organized in 1951. After the 1954 Geneva agreements split the country, some...
Look magazine sent Churchill in 1966 to Viet Nam, where he flew in air strikes against the Viet Cong, shared trenches with U.S. infantrymen and concluded: "More than ever I am convinced that Britain must stand behind the U.S. in Viet Nam." With fortunate timing, he arrived in Israel just before the war with the Arabs broke out in 1967 and he covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain...