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grim, bloody and unremitting war. For the men in the field, the 48 hours of Christmas lull was hardly worth writing home about. Infantrymen and Marines kept up patrols on the ground; Navy and Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...guerrillas struck at breakfast time, catching the American infantrymen unarmed and off guard. One U.S. sergeant was decapitated at the mess table: his head tumbled neatly into his plate of hash. Others fought back and were later found dead with bloody forks clenched in their fists. Of the 74 officers and men of C Company, 9th U.S. Infantry, only 26 survived. As one of them raged with tears in his eyes: "Damn the infernal Googoos...
...Marines and South Vietnamese troops continued Operation Prairie, aimed at denying transit to Hanoi's legions headed south. In Prairie's nine weeks of hillto-hill combat, the Allies had poured 1,000,000 artillery shells and 2,200 air strikes into the fray, killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st Airborne's Operation...
From 100 canny Australian jungle warriors seeded as advisers through the northernmost I Corps, through the tough South Korean infantrymen and marines nearly 25,000 strong on the central coast, down to the 4,550 Australian "diggers" and New Zealand artillerymen near Saigon (see map), the other fighting allies are present and accounted for. If they are sometimes overlooked in the flow of dispatches, they are hardly ever by the Viet Cong. For each contingent has brought its own unique style and skills to the Viet Nam conflict...
...Vietnamese government and his natural ebullience seemed a little out of place in a country that has been at war for twenty years, especially in comparison to the sombre mood of his more experienced companion, Averell Harriman. But the pictures of the Vice-President exchanging cheery small talk with infantrymen and returning the salutes of Vietnamese Boy Scouts fit in perfectly with the memorandum's recommendation that...