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...Crater with a View. The V.C. first opened up with mortars on the U.S. base, then sent snipers scurrying under cover of the moonless night into the camp's very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol...
Next day the North Vietnamese struck in I Corps-South Viet Nam's five northernmost provinces-in a coordinated set of attacks on more than a dozen allied positions. In one, the North's rocketeers fired 24 Russianmade 122-mm. projectiles at Danang Airbase, destroying one F-4 Phantom jet and two spotter planes and heavily damaging five other craft. But there were no allied deaths, and within hours the runways were repaired and the base fully operative again. In another attack, some 5,000 Communists tried to overrun two U.S. forward positions in the Que Son Valley...
...each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large empty office, supplied them with submachine guns and pistols and plenty of liquor, and in four consecutive nights shot 2½ hours of 16-mm. film that was eventually cut to 90 minutes...
Most impressive of the Cheyenne's talents, however, is its deadly arsenal. Moving in for the kill, the two-man crew-pilot and copilot-gunner-have at their fingertips six missile launchers, a swiveling belly-turret with a 30-mm. automatic gun, and a nose turret armed with either a 40-mm. grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably...
After the instrument has been inserted, a balloon attached to the inserted end is inflated, pushing blood away from the heart walls. An 8 mm. camera films the heart and its motion, and enlarges the image 21 times...