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...rebellious I Corps area around Danang and Hue, the majority of the Vietnamese troops were still operating aggressively and effectively. Though the 1st Division-loyal to its dissident, dismissed commander, Lieut. General Nguyen Chanh Thi-has all but stopped operations for the moment, the 2nd Division at Quang Ngai is fighting hard and well. Countrywide, the Vietnamese have increased their weekly number of battalion-size operations from 51 in January to 77 in the first week of May. Simultaneously, U.S. forces have mounted more small-unit and battalion-scale operations than ever before-4,077 in the nine-week period...
...most spectacular one last week belonged to the marines, who celebrated the anniversary of their arrival by virtually destroying the North Vietnamese 36th Regiment. The marines had been hunting the 36th for nearly three months when the Red command post was finally pinpointed between Chu Lai and Quang Ngai. Four battalions of marines and four of Vietnamese government troops closed with the 36th in Operation Utah, a three-day battle that gave the marines their toughest fighting in a year of war. The 36th was well disciplined and well armed with the new Chinese Communist 7.62-caliber family of weapons...
Another is Robert Resseguie, 25, a native of Madison, N.J., and a former Peace Corps worker in Thailand. He is now an assistant AID representative in Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. After the U.S. Marines had cleared an area of Viet Cong in last summer's Operation Starlight, Resseguie led nearly 20,000 refugees back to their deserted homes, helped provide them with food and building material. Unfortunately, as soon as Starlight winked out, the V.C. winked back inan evidence of ineffective follow-through that has plagued pacification efforts all along...
Never before had the Communists been hit so hard and in so many places at one time. From south of Saigon to coastal Quang Ngai, over 25,000 allied troops stalked the Reds in six separate operations (see map). It was far and away the biggest battle week...
...contrast, ground and air combat in the South is being greatly intensified. Last week, while U.S. Army units fanned out in three big search-and-destroy operations, thousands of marines, intent on trapping a hard-core Viet Cong division, stormed a beach south of Quang Ngai in the biggest amphibious assault mounted by the U.S. since the Inchon landing in Korea...