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...pilots pushed the Cobra into a steep dive. Before they pulled up-at about 500 ft.-Walters had fired two pairs of 2.75-in. rockets into enemy positions. Diving again, Hayden let go with his 7.62-mm. minigun against a pocket of North Vietnamese caught in the open near the perimeter wire. Terrified, the Communists scattered back into the tree line, leaving 15 bodies on the ground. There was another strike, then another and another, until Hayden had expended his entire 2,500-lb. load of ordnance. By noontime, he was back at Khe Sanh to refuel, rearm and wait...
...number of factors have upset the original expectations. Boxed into static positions, ARVN artillerymen with 155-mm. eleven-mile-range howitzers are often outreached by North Vietnamese gunners with 130-mm. pieces that can fire a shell 17 miles. Fog blankets fire bases and curtails vital air support...
...high school track star in Oklahoma City, Kenneth Hardy Cooper weighed 165 Ibs. and ran the mile in 4 mm. 30 sec. As a medical student at the University of Oklahoma, he ballooned to 196 Ibs. Soon after graduation in 1956, Dr. Cooper tried waterskiing. "I lasted three minutes," he recalls. "I was so out of condition that I nearly passed out from exhaustion, and I did throw...
...Laos operation by week's end. Because the Army counts only craft that are totally destroyed as "losses," however, the actual number of those shot down was almost certainly higher. Along the lower part of the thickly fortified Ho Chi Minh Trail, 51-cal. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns sprayed out a murderous shield of defensive fire. "They've got stuff out there, man, we don't even know what it is," said one pilot returning from Laos to Khe Sanh. "I had things flying past me looked big as basketballs." At least one chopper company received...
Down with Color. Simplicity and frugality are trademarks of Cartier-Bresson. He works with the same Leica for years before reluctantly replacing it, and seldom employs filters or anything other than the standard 50-mm. lens. He never uses artificial lighting, never crops a negative for emphasis or effect. Says LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, himself a master: "In the area of reportage, he is definitely without peer...