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...Boddie Jr., 36, of Baltimore, a Phantom fighter-bomber pilot who has flown 153 missions over North and South Viet Nam since he arrived seven months ago. Winner of nine Air Medals and recommended for both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star, Boddie can lay bombs or napalm within 30 meters of his own troops and take as much steel as the Viet Cong can dish out. Yet he is able to say of Stateside antiwar demonstrators: "I'm here to protect their right to dissent...
...Thien when it was pinned down by fire from the seemingly deserted village of Trung An. The North Vietnamese had built of logs, trees and dirt an astonishing network of 300 holes throughout Trung An, were so well burrowed that even the U.S. bombers' 1,000-pounders and napalm failed to root them out. The leathernecks called up big M48 tanks to break through the hedgerows and roll right up atop the enemy bunkers...
...Lewis Walt pulled out all the stops, ordered two battalions into action. The Army's big 105-mm. and 155-mm. guns swung round to zero in on the enemy hilltops. Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb. and 2,000-lb. bombs and napalm, eventually dropped more than 1,000 tons on the North Vietnamese. From the outset the Marine strategy was to take the hills at any cost, denying the enemy the killing high ground that would control the entire Khe Sanh area...
...Kudos to Dr. Rusk and TIME for exposing the napalm flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
...tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with bombs, kerosene, napalm and rockets. At least one-third of the oil cargo went up in flames...