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...took just 65 minutes to put 1,400 marines ashore with rifles, machine guns, rocket and grenade launchers. At Danang, the brigade's other battalion came in the easy way-by air from Okinawa. Both battalions came prepared for heavy combat: they had 105-mm. howitzers, M48 medium tanks, 106-mm. recoilless rifles...
...ARMS. With the stepped-up pace of the war, the Viet Cong can no longer rely on captured U.S. weapons. "Hanoi has undertaken a program to re-equip its forces in the South with Communist-produced weapons." Among them: a "new family" of Chinese Communist 7.62-mm. carbines, assault rifles and light machine guns, as well as heavier recoilless rifles, mortars, antitank mines, grenade launchers and bazookas. Whole Viet Cong companies have been outfitted with these new arms. The ominous conclusion: Viet Cong reliance on weapons that require ammo and parts from outside "indicates the growing confidence of Hanoi...
...airstrip, cut through a double apron of barbed wire without being seen by guards, began blowing up parked helicopters and light reconnaissance planes with satchel charges. At the same time, guerrillas hiding in a hamlet 1,000 yds. from the camp poured 55 rounds from 81-mm. mortars smack into the compound where 400 U.S. advisers lived. They were right on target. Fifty-two billets were damaged, including some totally destroyed. In one, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who happened to be in Pleiku visiting his son Bruce, a 21-year-old U.S. Army warrant officer, leaped up at the first mortar...
...throughout Viet Nam, and according to one Pentagon estimate, it would take 50 military police battalions-roughly 200,000 men-to guard those installations adequately. By another reckoning, a big airfield like Danang would require a 17½-mile perimeter to keep it out of the range of 81-mm. mortars; a full U.S. division would be required for the job. Lacking such manpower, U.S. troops are improvising. At Quinhon's airstrip, officers and enlisted men alike have begun hiring rugged Mung tribesmen for $5 a month-paid out of their own pockets-for sentry duty. Such an arrangement...
...slaying of a brave (Sal Mineo) who has taken another man's wife. Here and in the stoic, timeless beauty of Squaw Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians who don't come over the hill in war paint. The make-believe Cheyennes appear somewhat out of it themselves. When they...