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Snakes & Lanterns. Fighter-bombers seared both hills with flaming napalm, then returned with rockets, heavy fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire. For three days, the Reds on Hill 400 hit back with mortar and small-arms fire so intense that Medevac helicopters could not land to take out Marine wounded. Finally, Marine pilots used 1,000-lb. bombs to blast craters deep enough to provide cover for the choppers, and a few critical cases were evacuated. Then the Marines moved out, stormed the hill with satchel charges,* and blasted the Reds out of their holes. They found a Communist regimental...
...surrounded unit radioed for air strikes to help out against the Reds. To guide the airmen to their targets, he ordered smoke rockets fired onto V.C. positions, outlined his own with colored smoke grenades. Despite the precautions, two Air Force F-100s swooping in to the rescue dropped their napalm canisters right on the U.S. lines. When the smoke cleared, many of the American troops lay writhing on the seared ground. Others ran screaming from their positions with their clothing afire...
...only off by 50 meters and the planes are going 150 or 200 miles an hour, these things are going to happen." Added DePuy: "I would ask for the strikes again in the same situation. We would have lost a lot more than we lost to the napalm if we had tried to winkle them out of those bunkers alone...
...chopping them to pieces, but they kept coming at us," said Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty. All but ten men of McGinty's platoon had been wounded before a relief company arrived to pull them out. Ho Chi Minh's men got off even worse. Napalm, McGinty said, "cooked them" in the formerly Marine foxholes they had taken over, and at least 200 were killed...
...defenders were running low on ammunition, but helicopters came in under the U.S. artillery barrage to resupply, then lifted out the American wounded. When the Communists charged across an open paddy area in front of the defenders' plateau, U.S. fighter-bombers showed up promptly to splash napalm on them...