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...cross rivers simply by driving underwater, locate targets in the night with infra-red and starlight viewfinders, and pinpoint their range with a laser beam. Automatic devices have reduced the standard four-and five-man crew to three, and a sophisticated stabilization system keeps a big 152-mm. gun so steady that it can fire artillery shells or guided missiles accurately even as the tank rumbles over potholes...
...last few years, hallucinogenic drugs have had a greater affect on popular music than such other noteworthy events as the escalation of That War and the invention of the 100 mm cigarette have had on the American public in general...
...something less than an enviable position. The 100 or so Communist guns that are trained on them with lethal accuracy are difficult to spot and almost impossible to wipe out except by direct hits. With ranges of up to 18 miles and guns as big as 152-mm. "bunker crackers," enemy ordnance plasters the Marine outposts almost at will. By firing only a few rounds and then quickly moving their artillery pieces or hiding them-in bunkers scooped out behind thick jungle foliage, in caves or under houses-the Communists have been largely successful in preventing U.S. forward observers from...
...need to hunt for the enemy; he is all around, waiting for an opportunity to strike an unwary patrol, a lumbering convoy or one of the camps itself. The Marines mostly sit and wait, cramped in muddy bunkers and trenches. Day and night their 105-and 155-mm. howitzers shake the hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly duel of giant cannon more akin...
...barrage right up to the camp's wire. Repulsed, the Communists withdrew after half an hour, but four Marines were killed and 15 wounded defending the camp perimeter. And all week long, the shells rained down as usual on the Marines. One attack of 80 rounds of 82-mm. mortar fire killed four and wounded 93. Another of rocket and artillery fire killed nine Marines and wounded...