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...greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into the DMZ, killing...
...summer, and snows blanket its jagged peaks and passes in winter. All year round, the thin air gnaws at the lungs and vitality of human trespassers in the fastness. Across the forbidding landscape, some 125,000 to 150,000 Chinese troops and more than 300,000 Indian jawans (infantrymen) are positioned in edgy, continuous confrontation...
...evening clothes; in reality, substitute a few cans of beer in a bare, functional officers' mess. In the movie, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese walk into the camp's defenses like so many head of cattle; in reality, they usually hit the way good infantrymen are taught to attack, using every inch of terrain for cover...
...troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches in a wide arc around the city, including more than 60 rockets cleverly hidden and ready to be fired...
Colonel Xu's infantry tactics reflect the lessons he learned during the Tet offensive when he threw whole battalions into the city only to see them badly battered. Now he slips small, squad-size units-ten infantrymen and two or three women who handle the cooking-past South Vietnamese defense perimeters and the cordons formed by the U.S. 9th and 25th Divisions. Once inside the city, the team deploys in three sections-one to fight, a second to dig a maze of underground tunnels for quick movement and escape, a third to rest. On a rotation basis, the system...