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...minutes, the Thunderchiefs slammed away; there were no further missile shots. "They're going to be working on those vans for three, four years-if they even fiddle with 'em," said Air Force Captain Robert L. Harris, of Long View, Texas. "You can't knock 20-mm. holes in those things and expect 'em to work very well...
...with brush. Though the camp's 400 montagnard defenders were patrolling assiduously up to ten miles away, no one thought to poke around his own front yard. Into each Communist pit went tidy stacks of ammo, a Chinese automatic rifle at one end, an ugly, snub-snouted 12.5-mm. antiaircraft machine gun at the other. Every emplacement was manned by a single gunner and designed so that he could scuttle quickly between his submachine-gun, trained on the camp, and the antiaircraft gun whenever fighter-bombers appeared...
...Leftwich, one of the 6,500 U.S. advisers who sometimes feel that they are the "forgotten men" in the new war, went too. The brittle Yen had run through five U.S. advisers until Leftwich came along. By quiet persuasion, Leftwich got Yen to add an engineering platoon, a 75-mm. howitzer platoon, a support and a signal detachment to what had been a medieval band. Since then, Colonel Yen and his men have been killing V.C. at a 9-to-1 ratio...
...this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have 82-mm. mortars and at least six 76-mm. howitzers mounted on the northern and southern shoulders of Natu, and a permanent observation post on the looming black slate ridge just ahead...
...area when it came upon an unusually stubborn-and large-band of guerrillas. Out went a radio call for help. In response, nearly 100 rocket-firing choppers from the First Team raced to the scene in the best cavalry tradition, and six of the division's 105-mm. howitzers were airlifted into firing range...