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Three main force Viet Cong units operate out of U Minh, "The Forest of Darkness," and Air Force fighter-bombers pounded the drop area with bombs and napalm before the big jump-largest in more than a year. Another 4,800 South Vietnamese infantrymen were helilifted into the search-and-destroy mission, which in its first two days netted 89 enemy dead and a rich cache of weapons. More important, it may well be a prelude to the imminent entry of U.S. troops into the Delta...
...them critically wounded, survived the murdering crossfire from the Communists. After overrunning the outgunned Americans, the North Vietnamese moved methodically across the platoon's battleground, shooting in the head any American still left alive. The other platoon was better positioned and fought on, calling napalm air strikes down to within 15 ft. of themselves on the charging enemy. The Communists caused heavy casualties before withdrawing, but they left 145 of their own dead on the battlefield. Still, it was one of the worst ambushes of Americans...
...Korean War counterpart; behind him stand rank upon rank of mobile mortars and howitzers that can be called in by air as quickly as he needs them. Overhead hover helicopters bristling with machine guns, rockets and automatic grenade launchers; above the "gunships" circle jet fighter-bombers armed with searing napalm, white phosphorous and bomblets that can unleash deadly patterns of tiny steel pellets. In no other war has American weaponry so quickly matched the demands of a difficult tactical terrain. From the swamps of the Mekong Delta, where 30-ft. patrol boats packed with unsinkable plastic foam whisk along...
...Outside Quincy House in the summer-like afternoon, some 600 students gathered to hear Editor Scheer denounce U.S. policy. Split roughly in half between those for and those against the Government, the crowd carried signs reading STOP THE WAR, NAPALM S.D.S., and BACK MAC. Scheer's oratory raised emotional temperatures even higher. S.D.S. members, awaiting McNamara's departure, watched all Quincy House exits. Officials dispatched several cars as decoys before McNamara slipped into a police wagon. About 25 S.D.S. members spotted . the vehicle, threw themselves under its wheels. Their shouts of "We got him-we got him!" brought...
...night was spectacular. From offshore, the 8-in. guns of the cruiser St. Paul flashed out barrages of shells up and down the enemy lines. U.S. warplanes, dropping parachute flares that hung in the sky like chandeliers, swooped in on their targets with bombs and bright orange seas of napalm. From the far distance, across the DMZ in the panhandle of North Viet Nam, came the winks and streaks of antiaircraft fire aimed at American jets blasting the enemy's supply dumps. On a knoll less than two miles from the zone, the Communists have remilitarized, a Marine officer...