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...divisional size on U S units in the hope of discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory. But that might well prove suicidal tor the Viet Cong have discovered that these days a mass assault all too easily turns into an avalanche of airborne bullets, napalm and bombs. Or they might simply fade away to lie low, Br'er Rabbit fashion, in the hope that sooner or later the U.S. would get weary of waiting and go back home...
...central highlands, a battalion of the 1st Cavalry Airmobile was helilifted into the "happy valley" of Song Con-ironically named because it is so Viet Cong-infested that until now every allied incursion has invariably drawn heavy gunfire. F-100s plastered the valley with 750-lb. bombs and napalm tanks before the 1st Cavalry landed, and rocket-artillery helicopters overhead covered their advance. When they hit a V.C. concrete bunker, the men of the 1st Cavalry slammed a wire-guided SS-11 missile designed for use against tanks into the bunker, knocked out the three V.C. snipers. Later they captured...
...something happened on the way to Phase 3. The skies indeed opened up - and rained napalm, machine-gun bullets and Bull-Pup missiles from U.S. fighter-bombers, which by last week were flying over 400 lethal sorties a day. No weather could hide the Viet Cong from the radar eyes of the Guam-based B-52s and their pulverizing 750-and 1,000-lb. bombs. And by the tens of thousands each week, U.S. fighting men swarmed into Viet Nam (total at the end of last week: 128,000), first to relieve the pressure on Vietnamese troops, then...
...company commanders, had 24 of his 28 helicopters hit or disabled, got only half his troops on the ground and into battle. But reinforcements tried again, and in two days of short, brutal clashes, the Eagles rammed the Viet Cong backward into a holocaust of bombs and napalm from U.S. planes, finally turned the field over to the incoming 1st Cavalry Airmobile (TIME, Sept. 24), somewhat bloody but purged of the V.C. For all the hail of lead, U.S. losses were surprisingly light. The Viet Cong left 226 dead, many of them elite troops with red stars on their belts...
...bunker before a mine and a bullet cut him down. Even as he fell, he sprayed the bunker with fire. Still the V.C. refused to surrender, so the troops called for Air Force Skyraiders, which again and again dive-bombed the cavelike compartments with 750-lb. bombs, napalm and machine-gun fire. With that, the Viet Cong slunk off into the jungle, leaving 14 of their dead in the big bunker...