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...artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion of the enemy and killed 164. The Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh Bay, the U.S. base long considered the most impregnable bastion in Viet Nam and twice chosen for Viet Nam touch downs by Lyndon...
...they give the enemy what amounts to a mobile long-range artillery that he can use to strike at will at practically any target in South Viet Nam. Before, the Communists were forced to creep within a mile or so of their target in order to hit it with mortar fire, thus exposing themselves to detection by allied patrols. Now, using their new weaponry, they can send shells crashing into U.S. bases from as far away as seven miles, well beyond the range of U.S. patrols. Similarly, all South Vietnamese cities are open to such attacks and most, in fact...
There, three other newsmen joined to help carry the man back to the rear. Just as the newsmen picked up the dying Marine, an enemy mortar round landed a few yards from them, blowing them into a ditch. Shrapnel hit Greenway in the left leg. He was taken out of Hué in a helicopter and treated at the U.S. military hospital...
...crumbled buildings, among the jagged battlements of the Citadel's six-mile wall, in darkened houses and inside the secondary wall of the imperial city. Enemy sharpshooters trained their scopes on the allies from Hué's highest spots; machine-gunners picked wide-angle vantage points; and mortar fire struck everywhere, like an infernal rain...
...this position was threatened by allied forces advancing on the Citadel from the west. For mobility within the city, the Communist troops found a second, more cunning conduit. They crawled through sewer lines beneath the city that led up to street level behind allied lines. Time and again, Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the advancing U.S. armor. Sometimes a tank lurched, then treaded wildly through brick walls at streetside, where its crew, one or two of them wounded, would jump from the hatch; another crew would be immediately called...