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Lieut. Thung, however, decided to play the hero and attack on his own. Trouble was, the U.S. command had dispatched a battalion of 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) by Caribou transport and then helicopter from Kontum to join up with the 101st in Tuy Hoa. All night, Thung's mortars blasted away at the U.S. position on a small plateau, but with little effect...
More than 13,000 rounds of artillery had pocked the ridge north of Kontum, and more than 100 fighter-bomber strikes had added their bite. But the three battalions of North Viet Nam's 24th Regiment still clung to the high ground as Operation Hawthorne-and the first major battle of 1966 for the critical Central Highlands-entered its second week...
...reasons for the war do not always seem clear to all Americans, few can fail to be moved by the tales of individual valor and self-sacrifice that the conflict has inspired. One of the most gallant of all was written last week on the rugged Kontum plateau by a man who had first won hero credentials on the football field: Army Captain William Stanley Carpenter Jr., 28, the famed "lonely end" and captain of West Point's 1959 team...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Woman Doctor in Viet Nam," a documentary about Dr. Pat Smith, who runs the 40-bed Catholic Mission Hospital in Kontum, 255 miles northeast of Saigon...
Most of the Communist reinforcements are concentrating in such plateau provinces as Kontum and Pleiku, where the only fire brigade at Westmoreland's disposal has been the overworked 1st Cavalry. To lend them a hand, a 4,000-man contingent from the Army's 25th