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Next day the Viet Cong dynamited nine bridges in a calculated effort to make it difficult for voters to reach polling places. The day after, two Communist platoons overran the provincial capital of Quang Ngai, shelling...
Aware that North Vietnamese regulars are concentrating troops in the A Shau valley 60 miles west of Danang, the U.S. sent B-52s to bomb the area. Air Cavalry troopers landed by helicopter on top of a nest of tunnels in the central province of Quang Ngai, rooted out the North Vietnamese defenders and blew up the bunkers. In the same province, 4th Division troopers flushed an entire North Vietnamese battalion and killed 65, losing only one man themselves...
...with festooned streets and parades of floats escorted by buzzing swarms of teen-agers on motorbikes. But on the battlefields, bullets and mortars pounded in 73 enemy violations of the truce period recorded by Saigon. Some 30 of them were judged "significant," including a long firefight in southern Quang Ngai province in which 45 North Vietnamese and eight American soldiers died early on the birthday of Buddha, who enjoined reverence for life...
Korean Handiwork. First to close with the Viet Cong was a company of South Korean marines dug in on the coastal flatlands of Quang Ngai province, long a Communist stronghold. The Koreans, members of the elite Blue Dragon brigade, had purposely positioned themselves in the open, hoping to draw the Communists down from the forested mountains for a set-piece battle. The Korean perimeter was in the shape of a valentine, laced with concertina wire and reinforced with concrete revetments. On the night of St. Valentine's Day, a North Vietnamese regiment of 1,500 men struck...
...grinding intensity of the U.S.'s continuing campaign against an enemy doing his best to avoid battle. Last week U.S. units were out hunting in force along the length and breadth of South Viet Nam-most notably the marines, who launched a major multi-battalion assault near Quang Ngai on a suspected enemy concentration...