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...carrier, then took to his whirlybird once more, landing on Onslow Beach, below the Outer Banks, where he was joined by the Shah of Iran. Through the afternoon, the VIPs observed a well-rehearsed attack on the beach by five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile PT-boat commander had some heartfelt parting words: "As we leave this...
When recently a couple of dissident South Vietnamese air force officers used two American AC-6 fighter planes to drop American-supplied napalm bombs on Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace in Saigon, the incident only dramatized the very uncertain character of United States' involvement with the South Vietnam regime. These pilots were not aberrant malcontents with a history of disloyalty; the leader of the attack was a squadron operations officer known as one of the best pilots in the South Vietnamese air force. The other, who managed to escape to the Cambodian border, described himself as a nationalist...
...mutinous paratroopers, and this time he was taking no chances. With the agility born of experience, short, stocky Diem dashed down the stairs of the palace's east wing to a cellar fortified against such emergencies, flashed word by telephone to his military commanders just as a napalm bomb turned the west wing into a smoky shambles. In a west wing apartment, meanwhile, Diem's brother and sister-in-law, Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three of their children (a fourth was away from home) and bolted for the basement...
With that, the paratroopers began a show that wowed the President and his party. After fighter-bombers had seared a jump area with Napalm and blasted it with 500-lb. bombs, six C-130 transports lumbered overhead at 1,250 ft.-and the sky turned alive with paratroopers from the 101st Airborne, the sister division of the 82nd. Behind the men floated the equipment of war-a 105-mm. howitzer, a self-propelled antitank gun, an 18,000-Ib. bulldozer dangling from six 100-ft. chutes that blossomed like giant flowers...
...three days Cao feinted and jabbed, using U.S. Navy landing craft on the canals that crisscross the plain. Viet Cong Battalion 514 was backed into a corner 20 miles square. Then Cao struck. Mortar and howitzer shells pounded the square while sturdy AD6 Skyraiders swooped down, strafing and dropping napalm bombs. Some 100 soldiers of the 450-man battalion were killed, many more wounded. Colonel Cao's men captured 22 prisoners, including two nurses and two 15-year-old boys who claimed that their job was to sing and dance to entertain the guerrillas...