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...Better You than Them." McCoy's first test came on the third night the Carronade was on the line. A U.S. Army adviser called in from an outpost that was being overrun by Viet Cong, desperately demanded fire support. McCoy explained that his 5-in. gun was out of commission and all he had was rockets. "Never mind," answered the adviser. "Better you than them." The Carronade cut loose, slamming rockets into the attackers, only 200 yds. from the friendly troops. That night confidence was born in the accuracy of naval rocket fire. "We got to the point," says...
...told, McCoy's Navy has killed 665 Viet Cong, destroyed 4,367 buildings, sunk 297 gunrunning sampans, and fired 31,251 rockets. Most important, not a single South Vietnamese outpost within range of his rockets has been overrun during the three months his "little armada" has been in action. "The PT was the boat of World War II," he says...
...Cong attack on the Happy Valley Special Forces camp. From its nearby headquarters at An Khe, Air Cav choppers quickly dispatched a company of Flying Horsemen to the valley. The company was not long in finding the enemy: it drew withering mortar and machine-gun fire from a Red outpost hidden by shoulder-high, saw-edged elephant grass...
...Women. "The bandit Tunga Khan won't dare to molest us-we're American citizens," says a frail missionary lady, reeling off exposition at a godforsaken outpost in northern China in the year 1935. Of course, most of the dreadful events thus predicted duly come to pass, and all that remains to arouse sympathy is the plight of some rather interesting actresses, trapped on MGM's chintzy Chinese sound stage with absurd situations, hoked-up direction and dialogue like wet firecrackers...
Such are the arias of soap operas, day in and day out, on daytime television, the last outpost of the knitting brow and the purling organ. Once, nighttime TV was the only phase of programming that interested sponsors and networks; today, television executives are laughing on the other side of their phases...