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Lovelier Windows. At 11 a.m. on the first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector of the divided city. Longer-range guns reached across Israel's narrow waist to hit the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and Syrian guns opened up on northern Israeli towns from the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee. But it was Jerusalem, the Israeli capital, that took the worst damage the Arabs inflicted on the Jews in the whole war. Most...
Hamlet by Hamlet. His humanitarianism made good military sense. "When we realized that 180,000 people lived within 82-mm. mortar range of the Danang Airbase, and when we realized that there would be no way to police every house," said Walt, "we decided that the only way to solve it was to make sure that we had friendlies living around the airfield." The number of Vietnamese now living in secure areas has doubled, to 1,000,000, during Walt's tour...
There was scattered gunfire from the Jordan side of Jerusalem, including a barrage aimed at an Israeli helicopter that strayed across the wall of no man's land. Palestinian troops in the Gaza Strip lobbed mortar shells at Israeli positions for 40 minutes without hitting anything, and Egypt charged that the Israelis had fired on Arab farmers near Gaza. Along the straight-edged border that divides the Negev Desert (Israel) from the Sinai Desert (Egypt), the Israelis captured an Egyptian colonel and four of his men who had lost their way and wandered onto the wrong dune...
Operation Hickory's sweep into the DMZ has proved a success by any measure. The Allies killed an estimated 1,500 North Vietnamese and seized a rich cache of enemy supplies, from gas masks and mortar shells to a new So viet 82-mm. recoilless rifle. The thrust also served to isolate enemy forces operating to the south in Quang Tri province, cutting them off from their supply routes and their ammunition caches. But Hickory's cost was high: it contributed heavily to a new record of 337 U.S. deaths for the week ending May 20, plus...
...Swarms. Those totals are bound to rise. In the western part of the Central Highlands, a 150-man company of the U.S. 4th Division was slogging up a hill commanding a Communist infiltration route from Cambodia last week when its men stopped to rest. Suddenly, the jungle erupted in mortar explosions and gunfire as the company ran into an ambush set by a North Vietnamese battalion. Rising to a half-crouch to direct the defense, the company commander took a bullet under his left eye and fell dead. Within minutes, all the company's officers had been either killed...