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...helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow to hedgerow. They...
Another company was choppered in to join the attack, and the V.C. pulled back and zeroed in their mortars on the ridge line. The first incoming round landed precisely on a marine's head, blowing him to pieces. Pinned down again, Bull called for a napalm strike. It turned the Viet Cong into charcoal sticks, and suddenly enemy firing ceased. A medical-evacuation helicopter landed on top of the ridge and took away the wounded...
...battle for Van Tuong continued all through the night. One V.C. company tried to scramble down the cliffs and escape by sea, only to be blown to pieces by the Galveston's guns. Another company tried to break through to the west and was burned to ash by napalm. Finally, shortly after dawn, the leathernecks smashed the Van Tuong stronghold and slogged ahead toward their final goal, the beaches at the eastern end of the peninsula...
Smoking Scars. By mid-afternoon of the second day, all Viet Cong resistance had ceased. Boots, equipment and weapons were scattered haphazardly across the fields, and great black scars in the earth still smoked from napalm. The bodies of the enemy hung in pieces from trees and hedgerows or lay charred in their tunnels and caves. By week's end the marines had counted 567 Viet Cong dead, believed hundreds more were entombed in tunnels sealed with flame and explosives. U.S. Air Force planes killed an estimated 55 others when they attacked a band of 400 V.C. trying...
...government can promise its people, in response to insurgent activity, is ten years of napalm and heavy artillery, it will not be a government for long...